I have a project I am currently working on, called _nus. http://e.cactuswax.net/index.php/projects/_nus/ _nus is an attempt at a remote server update manager for ArchLinux. Think of it like...the redhat-network, if you are familiar with that. My hope is that people would be able to use it to monitor a large collection of servers, to see which ones are out of date, and to schedule things like adding/removing/updating packages. _nus has two components: A web aggregator, and a monitor daemon. The monitor daemon runs on each of the servers being...monitored. Both are written in ruby (with the rails framework for the web aggregator). I have the monitor daemon code (_nus:Client) mostly framed out. I just need to add the actual 'work' code to it. I am currently working on the web aggregator (_nus:Server) portion. Maveric has been providing me some good feedback, and he said he will provide some testing when I get something usable out. Hopefully this tool will be useful to someone out there. ;) -- Bender: It was horrible! A nightmare! Fry: What happened? Bender: I dreamt I was in a place of 0's and 1's and all of a sudden... I saw a two *whimper* Fry: It's ok Bender, don't worry. There's no such thing as 2's. -------------------------- There are only 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.