So I have this program, and I compile this program and update it on a daily bases. Now I manage about 10 servers, and about 5 accounts that uses this compiled program. This is what I do: I manually download the newly compiled file through FTP. and upload them individually one by one. So with a total of 50 accounts, this is very frustrating to do. Is there a way to automate this process of updating between servers? I'm running a freeBSD box.

FTP is an extremely slow, insecure and inefficient process.

What you really want, is to use something like rsync over ssh.

Also, if you have 5 users using the same app, they should be running the same binaries not having their own copy of the binary in their home dir - it uses less memory (i.e. readonly executable pages can be shared) and is easier to maintain.

Personally I'd say, either have a cron job which pushes the updates out using rsync over ssh (use a RSA key so you don't need to enter the password in this cron job), or have a readonly NFS server on your central box, and have the machines locally pull copies on their own individual cron jobs.

Mark

Have a single central server provide an NFS mount ('file share" in Microsoft parlance). Put the binary file there. Have all 50 account include the NFS-mounted directory in their path. No push of the binary, no pull of the binary, no problem.