On Ubuntu there's an auto update service. It can do security updates
only, or everything except the kernel. Since kernel updates require a
restart and might require recompiling modules (ie for Asterisk) you
would still login periodically and do those from the CLI.....though I
seem to think you could configure it to do those automatically too.
I've had zero problems with it and 100% reliability. I would have
assumed that CentOS and Debian could do something similar, but honestly
I don't know.
In Windows, there's WSUS, SCCM, etc. for managing the update process
on a bunch of machines. How are you guys managing that in Linux? I
have mostly (if not completely) CentOS and Debian, ranging from
version 5 (I hope not any older) to version 7.
I'd like to think that I'd want something more elegant than a cron
that does yum update -y daily or weekly, but really, I never check the
packages I do upgrade, I just upgrade them all.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
