Re: Keeping hosts updated
Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:12:20 +1300
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| Organization | Green Gecko Global Ltd. |
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On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 12:32 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Jaco <[email protected]> > > multiple VM & baremetal systems (local & remote) for my setups; most > of them > > are Ubuntu, with a few Debian & BSD's in the mix. > > > > One of my pet peeves is keeping them updated. > > Two approaches work for me :- > > For a collection of Debian-like machines, 'apt-dater' > http://www.ibh.de/apt-dater/ does an excellent job, combine that with > a regular apt-get --download-only & notification and you're sorted > well. centos also offers yum-updatesd which will keep you up to date automagically if you trust them. However, the question also needs to be expanded to keeping $CMS updated as well in a lot of cases. I find that most of the big ones have extensions that at least tell you that you need to update... hth, Steve -- Steve Holdoway BSc(Hons) MNZCS <[email protected]> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: [email protected] Skype: sholdowa _______________________________________________ NZLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.linux.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nzlug