Re: Keeping hosts updated
Tomislav Skunca <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:18:43 +1300
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On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 16:12, Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 You can try Puppet (http://www.puppetlabs.com/). There is a FOSS and a commercial version with extra features. _______________________________________________ NZLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.linux.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nzlug