I think that it's baout time that we had some sort of project on the go
to allow for automatic updating (a "niced" process in the background
started whenver we dial up, or running as a daemon process on those
machines permanently online). Would have to access (mirror) sites that
are verified as being trustworthy (such as RedHat's or Linux.org's).
Could start as a simple script that maintains a record or your latest
level of installed software (RPM already does this) and ftps onto the
source server, does a listing, greps for your software modules, passes it
through "sed" to get the versions, and then downloads those that have
changed, updating your local record of the versions that you have
already. It could construct a shell script to apply the patches, but
without more intelligence, would probably be dodgy to actually RUN the
script without human intervention.
Building on this, we (the Linux community)could extend this (perhaps use
the rpm system?) to a fully fledged patch management system.
Any comments anyone?
BTW, please don't email me with requests for a script, as I am too busy
writing a WEB frontend for Linux at the moment to be diverted, but if
you're prepared to wait, I will be able to look at this later, after the
frontend has been released and GPLed.
Brad.
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
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---"Tim Larkins (EUKSHEL1PO)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> I can't do it!!!!
>
> I've tried, I really have.. but in the end it all comes down to the same
> thing.. I CAN'T DO IT!!!!!!
>
> All I wan't to do is too keep my distiribution upto date with all the
latest
> patches to make sure that it runs as smoothly as possible.. but its
simply
> not possible! A new patch arrives every 2 days! I'm on a dial up
> connection with no free local calls.. I can't afford to d/l the latest
> 10meg patch every week... All I want is ONE page somewhere telling me
> exactly which patches I should apply, what the patch does and possible
side
> effects (I've heard the later versions of PPP can cause problems when you
> upgrade to them).
>
> Is this REALLY to much to ask? I've got a limited amount of time I can
> spend using linux as the majority of my work is done useing MS tools...
I
> find my self in the sittuation where the majority of time sat at my Linux
> box is spent finding/applying/fixing patchs, when all I wana do is jump
> online for a couple of hours and talk on line without having to worry
about
> some little s**t performing some malicous attack on me!
>
> Anyone got any advice? links to pages with the kinda detail i'm after,
> methods u employ to keep upto date...
>
> Thanks in advance..
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Tim Larkins
> NCR Professional Services
>
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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