A private BSD laboratory

Did you read my previous posts about RcptFilter? After having put in production the third BSD server running BIND and Sendmail with ClamAV, I decided to extend a bit the central management configuration features of that tiny scripting solution. At scheduled times, few Perl and MSFT shell scripts running on a Windows Server 2003 machine produce and publish on a public web location a compressed archive containing all configuration files we need to distribute on all our BSD managed servers.

Some troubles occurred in generating the configuration files, because the Microsoft text file format is a bit different (each line ends with CR and LF characters instead of using LF only, as all Unix-like machines do), but with the utility dos2unix all came back compliant.

Considering the settings we need to centrally manage for our few servers, this solution fits well until now, but I wish extend it in order to distribute even some machine-specific settings, maybe using authenticated and protected channel to the hosts and a central repository of policies. Looking also forward to find a good solution which, I am sure, it has already been developed by good Unix administrators out there.