Enoch West wrote: > I wanted to get some feedback to see what other people here use to > manage their CentOS systems, apply updates, roll out new software > packages, update unique config files etc. I've tried Cfengine and I'm currently evaluating Radmind. http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/ It allows you to do everything you just mentioned and monitor filesystem changes as well, like tripwire. Their documentation and mailing lists seem to focus a lot on Mac OS X but it'll work on any UNIX or UNIX-like platform. Here's one command line tutorial.. http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/files/radmind-tutorial-0.8.1.pdf This paper might offer better insight.. http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/files/LISA-radmind.pdf Here is my first post to their mailing list from a couple days ago inquiring about using Radmind on RPM based Linux distributions. Check out the thread, there seem to be a few people using it on Fedora and RHEL. https://mailman.rice.edu/pipermail/radmind/2005-March/009240.html Hope this helps. Avtar