Re: [ossig] Linux security patches - costs and features?

[Colin Charles <byte@aeon.com.my>]

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 12:40, Ken Wong wrote:

> 3) Nothing prevents you from having 1 demo account and storing all the 
> updates downloaded by that account, then distributing to other users 
> via some sort of script. 
> 
> Granted, I don't recommend 3) unless you're incredibly cheap/poor. I 
> don't mind paying for a service that obviously gives you added value. 

well, this is where "autorpm" comes into play. we use it on a production
environment with several hunderds of pc's. during boot-time, autorpm
runs, looks for any possible updates on the update server, and if need
be, it fetches it and installs it.

-- 
Colin Charles, byte@aeon.com.my
http://www.bytebot.net/


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