[UFO Chicago] syncing multiple workstations to one master

W. Scott Lockwood III scott at guppylog.com
Thu Sep 1 06:12:27 PDT 2011


Far easier, and exactly what you want is a tool called Warsync.

http://warsync.alioth.debian.org/

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W. Scott Lockwood III

-----Original Message-----
From: ufo-bounces at ufo.chicago.il.us [mailto:ufo-bounces at ufo.chicago.il.us]
On Behalf Of Nick Moffitt
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 7:59 AM
To: ufo at ufo.chicago.il.us
Subject: Re: [UFO Chicago] syncing multiple workstations to one master

Calvin Pryor:
> I know I read something somewhere about a Linux/Debian type tool that 
> will sync multiple computers to one "master". You just make changes to 
> the master (updates, etc) and the changes are magically propagated to 
> all others computers set up to do so.
> 
> What am I thinking of ?

Configuration management, as a whole.  Most likely Puppet, which is the
Least Bad of all the options out there right now.  Possibly older and more
broken/dangerous systems like CFEngine, or newer and equally dangerous
systems like Chef.


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