And you should run a local repository if at all possible. If you have a lot of machines it will save you boatloads of time and bandwidth.
-- Christopher Tyler MTCRE/MTCNA/MTCTCE/MTCWE Total Highspeed Internet Services 417.851.1107 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Moffett" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 8:46:22 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Managing Linux Updates 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. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com
