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In message <UWV178y00hkjA0nVNm@andrew.cmu.edu>, Walter Ray Smith writes:
| The CMU Computer Science Dept. has had hundreds of networked Unix
| workstations for several years now, and we have exactly the same problem.
| ....
| SUP is a daemon process that visits each machine daily in the wee hours of
| the morning and makes it conform to the appropriate configuration standard.

No, Walt, SUP makes the machines conform to the latest installed
configuration, whether or not that is an appropriate configuration.  SUP
will install buggy or broken software as readily as improved software, and
has done so on a number of occasions.  People have prepared demos the night
before the event and come in the next morning to discover that incompatible
system software has been automatically installed on their machines by SUP.
I would not be so enthusiastic as you are about recommending such a system
for networked Macs.

Duane Williams
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