[wplug] Administration of Lots of Machines [wiki suggestion....]

[Alex]

Wow!  Now, this little discussion is why I love to
lurk in this group...the ideas flow!

I don't know if the web engineers here at Orrick (the
Wheeling GOC of www.orrick.com) are using Linux to
serve, but I've been encouraging and teaching the use
of a wiki (openwiki.com) here for documentation of
"institutional knowledge"...and its really cool!  Our
Document Services group does lots of EDGAR conversion
work, as well as all sorts of document
creation/repair/editing...and there's lots of arcane
knowledge to retain.

[Separately, I've been using NeoOffice at home, the
Mac OS X version of OpenOffice...it's fun, though I
haven't tested it's spreadsheet function yet.]

..alex.

thenamedtao at yahoo.com

--- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote:

> 
> On Apr 8, 2006, at 8:19 PM, Michael Semcheski wrote:
> 
> > This notebook proved to be extremely valuable.  It
> sounds like such a
> > simple thing, but it really paid off.  The person
> in charge wasn't
> > really that knowledgeable of computers, but
> recognized the value of
> > documenting his work.  That was his principle of
> administration.
> 
> I like a Wiki, or some other tool that keeps
> revision control.  That  
> way, you can see the history of a procedure, and
> who's recently made  
> changes/additions.
> 
> >  I think my philosophy is to standardize as much
> as possible, do
> > things that can be done to every machine or don't
> do them.  That's not
> > always possible, but it helps to simplify things.
> 
> I recently had to start managing a large number of
> unix and linux  
> systems, and I used a really cool tool called
> cfengine (http:// 
> www.cfengine.org/).  It's an amazing tool for a
> sysadmin, and it  
> helped me start managing a largely unmanaged
> network.  I'm also  
> working on using GNU Stow to push out software
> packages.
> 
> --
> Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
> 
> 
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