That is fine for some workstations and very non-critical servers, but
otherwise I would never allow cron to run apt-get and just pull down things
from security.debian.org. I don't mean to impune the reputation of debian or
the security patches and their writers, but on any important production
system I would never allow software I had not previously tested in some way
to be loaded and run.
I'm trying get debian more widely used in my company, the systems we sell
are a mixture of solaris, SCO, QNX, os/2 (3 soon to phased out) and even a
few NT boxes (ugh). I'm not a developer for those systems, so I have little
say in them, but as much as I like debian, I would really hate one of our
customer's calling card system, voicemail, etc to stop working for 5 minutes
while apt-get loads in an update to the SS7 server. Perhaps the weirdness of
one of our progs + the update would hose the box horribly unexpected ways.
For workstations and some servers I could see setting up a few sources I
manage by hand, and then have cron run apt-get on them. Then as updates, etc
come in, one could test them, and if it looks ok, dump it into the
appropriate sources, one for manager/sales workstations, customer support
workstations, one for developer workstations, and maybe 1 or 2 classes of
intranet fileservers, webservers etc.
Even for my boxes at home, I run it manually. I've been planning on setting
up a local source or 2 like above at home for months now, but I never seem
to get around to it.
From: Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Debian VS. Red Hat
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 22:18:41 -0500
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:41:59PM +0100, Jeff Green wrote:
> I resent the implication that we sysadmins ever think at all! And that
> even if we did we had brains with which to accomplish the task.
> Jeff
> ( A sysadmin)
:)
> Incidentally the best reason I can think of for using Debian over RedHat
> from a sysadmin's point of view is that security fixes on Debian arrive
> very fast and are implemented into the distributions at once, keeping
> your setup secure is normally a matter of issuing 2 commands a week:-
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
what reason would there be for a small one-horse sysadmin
(with very small brain pan) to NOT have cron do something like
# m h dom mo dow
30 3 * * 1 apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade
and (getting back to the original question of red hat vs. debian)
does red-hat have anything comparable?
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