RE: [Nolug] Sharing File Systems

Hi Dustin.

Yep, I'm going to give SSHFS a try for our random management stuff. No setup at
all on the target boxes and SSH security make it very attractive.

I'll probably just end up scripting the automation I want to do for our DNS
servers.

Thanks to you and all for the ideas!

John

   John Souvestre - Integrated Data Systems - (504) 355-0609

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@stoney.redfishnetworks.com [mailto:owner-
> nolug@stoney.redfishnetworks.com] On Behalf Of Dustin Puryear
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:22 PM
> To: nolug@nolug.org
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] Sharing File Systems
>
> I agree with Kevin: Avoid NFS and Samba here. If you are going to bring
> up a VPN then you have more options, but barring that you need to stay
> away from those two.
>
> SSHFS looks cool.
>
> And there is AFS.
>
> Or what about just an 'rsync -o ssh' script for /usr/local/scripts? In
> this situation, having a local master with:
>
> /usr/local/site
> /usr/local/site/bin
> /usr/local/site/conf
> /usr/local/site/logs
>
> may make sense, and you just rsync everything (other than logs) to the
> remote boxes every 30 min or so.
>
> Puppet and the other tools are great, but they may be overkill here.
> Still, nifty stuff.
>
> --
> Dustin Puryear
> President and Sr. Consultant
> Puryear Information Technology, LLC
> 225-706-8414 x112
> http://www.puryear-it.com
>
> Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers"
> http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/
>

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