On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 10:18 -0700, bruce wrote: > hi.. > > i'm trying to get my hands around the issue of managing servers. in > particular, i'm trying to get a better understanding of how people manage > their servers when it comes to installing/upgrading apps. > > i imagine most people simply do the install via rpm/yum/apt-get.. however, > if you really want to manage multiple servers, you need some way of knowing > that what you're doing want screw up something else on the server. you also > need some way of managing the software assets on the different boxes/etc... > Step 1 is to ensure that each server has an MTA and then a transport so that outgoing mail is routed to the primary MTA. For example our dns/squid server has postfix installed with a transport.map that includes tqmcube.com smtp:192.168.0.31 and then best_mx_transport = 192.168.0.31 and transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport.map in main.cf. This way, you will receive all of the cron mail and you will know what yum updates each day on each box. -- Multi-RBL Check: http://www.TQMcube.com/rblcheck.htm Kill Spam at the Source: http://www.TQMcube.com/spam_trap.htm Today's Spam Trap Adds: http://www.TQMcube.com/BlockedToday RBLDNSD HowTo: http://www.TQMcube.com/rbldnsd.htm
