NanoBSD Updatep* scripts

Luc Moreault Luc.Moreault at vsnlinternational.com
Mon Jan 29 20:06:25 UTC 2007


>> I have about 50 Soekris box lets say (I will actually have 
>> more than 100 running..) and I have a main server station 
>> which they will be all attached to.
>> 
>> Now I know that I could log into each individual Soekris 
>> nodes to do an update of the source code using the updatep1 
>> or updatep2 shell scripts.
>> But going at around 100 logins.. this could be long and harsh 
>> to do once every now and then.
>> 
>> Do you know a way I could, from the server machine, update 
>> every machines all at once without having to launch 
>> everything 1 node at a time ?
>> 
>You could use Net::SSH::Perl. Have you thought about running them
>diskless from a central NFS server instead of from flash? I don't know
>the environment that the Soekris boxes are in, but I would go with
>diskless if I could.
>
>Alex

If I do that, will I be able to configure each nodes with their own IP Addresses and config files ?


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