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On Wednesday 22 October 2003 06:36, Kai Hendry wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 02:57:26PM +0000, Adrian Midgley wrote: > > "Supporting Linux is still very difficult," ... said ... " because > > most centralized management tools do not work with Linux." > > I seem to hear about Tivoli, I know that one can run ssh and carry out > > commands in many other computers, and automate that. > > Companies probably lack basic knowledge like > > for i in LAN: > ssh i update-script I think it is more that they want a brand name on it, and to have a contract saying that someone will always be avialable to update their update-script when something changes, and to tell them regularly that nothing has changed. And that is a reasonable requirement, what with due dilligence and so on. So how does one generate that out of the anarchic environment we like? GIven how badly it operates under apparently strict controls and rules, it is wholly credible to me that a better way of ensuring it works could be fashioned from statistical calculations and affinities, but I don't think I can do it myself. -- From the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.