On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 10:18:41PM -0500, Will Trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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
A cronned apt-get upgrade might be a bit much, and I myself only do "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade --download-only". This parks updates in /var/cache/apt/archives, but doesn't install packages until requested manually by me on the command line. Because Debian packages may require manual intervention at install time (this is a Good Thing, dammit!), this still automates the tedious and slow portions of a system upgrade. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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