hi tom... what you suggested is more or less what i had been thinking about... as to the config file/mods, i might also create a script that takes a midified file, and simply does a network wide cp/mv to replace the client file, with the updated config file... or some kind of auto bash script to modify the client config file on the client system... -bruce -----Original Message----- From: Tom Brown [mailto:tom@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 9:00 AM To: bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: automated installation of rpm/app on a number of client machines > there appears to be some kind of mis-understanding regarding my question.. > > if i have 50 systems.. i'm trying to figure out how to automate the process > of installing the rpms across the 50 systems, so i don't have to do it > manually. i was also saying that the install process might also involve > creating of users/modifying config files... > > if you're implying that i could 'modify' the rpm file, so that the invoking > of the rpm would perform these functions, then ok.. maybe. > > i'm trying to find out if there's an automated/scripting method for this > kind of purpose. has anyone actually done this kind of automated action, and > if you have, cna you tell me how you did it... make sure root keys are setup on your hosts so your 'master' box can ssh into the others without a password. then #!/bin/bash HOSTNAMES=`cat machinelist.txt` for i in $HOSTNAMES do ssh $i 'rpm -i /path/to/some.rpm' done that will install the rpm on each host listed in machinelist.txt but of course the rpm must be on the system first so either have it on a share or #!/bin/bash HOSTNAMES=`cat machinelist.txt` for i in $HOSTNAMES do scp some.rpm $i: ssh $i 'rpm -i /path/to/some.rpm' done would copy it over to the host and then install it HTH
