From: Thomas Gebhardt (gebhardt_at_hrz.uni-marburg.de)
Date: Fri 11 Jul 2003 - 12:01:12 BST
Hi,
> > what about server unification, how was this solved?
>
> It is not. Unfortunatly.
Wouldn't it suffice to scan all files in /usr and its
subdirectories (on the vservers) looking for file
attributes and md5sum, "unifying" all the files that
are identical?
> > what about security updates in regard of unification?
> > any comments/infos are welcome ...
> That is really not a easy thing to fix. All help is appriciated of course.
What's the problem here? After a security update on one/several/all
vservers the different vservers will diverge. If one has a mechanism
for "unifying" different vservers, one could rescan and reunify
the vervsers. Of course, it would be more elegant just to rescan
the files of the packages that are involved in the update.
Cheers, Thomas