--- MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
Neill Newman neill@entora.co.uk writes:
aarrgghhh how many times.. apply the updates and this is less
likely to
happen..(not impossible mind you)
That's all well and good, but what do you do when the vendor's updates break core functionality required by your users? One thing Debian *still* has my respect for is that its "stable" really is, while still having security updates.
So true. I have a simple technique. MASSIVE firewall and a discontinuous network connection. simple it works.
If you want I can do a 10 minute demo at the barbeque on how to
make a
machine install updates automatically if it will encourage people
to do
this... I currently have 30 or so machines doing automatic updates,
and
I have to do about 5 minutes a week to make it work smoothly, all
it
took was a little time upfront...
This would be good, although "apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade" variations are 5 minutes up front and then just looking over the output of the cron job...
Seeing as this is pretty much a "misc" thread: I have discovered a RedHat 6.1 machine under my control. How do I upgrade it to 7.1? If it's a nuke and start again, I'll use Debian instead, as time is short, but as time is short, I'm quite happy to leave it as RedHat if there's an upgrade path.
rm -rf /*
followed by a debain CD.
Next BURN the redhat CD :o)
I think if you put the redhat CD or bootdisk in and do a reboot it will see you already have an install and ask if you want to upgrade.
Thanks
D
-- MJR
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