FAQ

http://neil.franklin.ch/Projects/dphys-config/FAQ
author Neil Franklin, last modification 2010.02.16
copyright ETH Zuerich Physics Departement
  use under either modified/non-advertising BSD or GPL license


Frequently* Asked Questions (FAQ) for the dphys-config configuration manager

* not really frequent, but that is what such files are called


Q: Why are you making this program?

A: To automatically install/update and remove config files, on 100s of hosts,
   based on an list of config files fetched from an server, listing places to
   put them, and scripts to trigger


Q: Will this work on my $DISTRIBUTION?

A: This script should work on any Unix system which can wget (for HTTP access)
   to an server full of host specific config files or symlinks to group/site
   specific ones. It has only been tested on our Debian Linux 3.1 (sarge)
   systems and on FreeBSD 6.1.


Q: Why is this called dphys-config?

A: Departement of PHYSics - CONFIGuration tool


Q: Where can I get code?

A: The current (read: in edit, sometimes not functional) from:
   http://neil.franklin.ch/Projects/dphys-config/ or:
   http://neil.franklin.ch/Projects/dphys-config.tar.gz or

   Various milestones/releases (read: archives, working) from:
   http://neil.franklin.ch/Projects/dphys-config-<date>/ or:
   http://neil.franklin.ch/Projects/dphys-config-<date>.tar.gz
     where last milestone/release is <date>=20100216