There is another option for VERY effective software distribution
(and allot more).
(Document link not converted) http://www.tivoli.com
Tivoli handles Enterprise Management. This includes software
distribution, inventory, event management, rules correlation
and automation engine, user administration and more. These services
are provided across more than 47 flavors of UNIX, NT, Netware, OS/2, and
Mainframe.
There is the 20 second reply...check out the WEB site for more info.
Matt Geiger
Sr. Systems Engineer
Tivoli Systems
matt.geiger@tivoli.com
http://www.tivoli.com
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Sorry for summary delay......Many thanks to those who responded....their
names and e-mail addresses are included in the body of the summary along
with their replies. I can only surmise that there are not that mant unix
software distribution tools or that no one uses such things out there
judging by the few replies I got. Is this even something that is worth
looking into???????
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>From pope@vicinity.com Tue Oct 22 11:35 EDT 1996
There is something called 'cfengine'. It's GNU software. I don't know
much about it yet, but we're in the same position and I'm going to be
looking at it over the next couple of weeks.
Information can be found:
http://www.iu.hioslo.no/~mark/cfdocs_toc.html
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>From rmills@atl1.america.net Tue Oct 22 12:41 EDT 1996
Hello Tom,
We're currently using rdist to push out quite a bit of stuff. Of course,
this isn't the best way to manage software distribution. One of the tools
we're looking at is Novadigm. Check out this web page for some more info:
http://www.tbi.com/software/novadigm.htm
We'll be testing it out within the next month or so, if you want to
send me some more e-mail in late November I can let you know how it went.
Rich
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Richard Mills - rmills@fair.net
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>From russell@mds.lmco.com Tue Oct 22 10:10 EDT 1996
I am currently looking at Starburst for a software distribution. I have
not started using it yet but it does look good.
This is the email address of the rep I have been working with:
"Richard O'Brien, StarBurst Communications" <robrie1@ibm.net>
Dave Russell
Lockheed Martin Corp
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>From ashfaq@corp.cirrus.com Fri Oct 25 19:18 EDT 1996
You can use SUP (Software Upgrade Protocol) from Carnegie Mellon University. It
is
configurable and freely available. I have seen it in some ftp sites, I have a
copy
of it but I do not know exactly where it can be picked up right now.
Ashfaq
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