Re: installing Perl (and other software) on multiple identical machines

Not sure, but at least apache might also install files into /etc. If you call make -n install in the apache dir it will tell you.

To be on the safe side you might for example

* collect all software in a partition you export through nfs. Then you would compile on the source machine once and only do the install step on all the other machines

* do a 'ls -1lR / >/tmp/xyz' on the machine before and after (use a different xyz for before and after) and diff the resulting files. You should get a good overwiev where changes happend

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Re^2: installing Perl (and other software) on multiple identical machines by punkish (Priest) on Jul 01, 2009 at 01:02 UTC
Thanks for the advice jethro. Not sure, but at least apache might also install files into /etc. If you call make -n install in the apache dir it will tell you. If it does, it probably does so under /usr/local/etc since my custom apache2 is installed under /usr/local/apache The tip about `ls -1lR` is gold. -- when small people start casting long shadows, it is time to go to bed	[reply] [d/l]