Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk wrote:
MJ Ray wrote:
There are various systems capable of remote control, including puppet and cfengine, if you want to initiate updates yourself.
Unless I am missing something from a quick scan of their websites, these are both aimed and a sysadmin managing their own updates rather than as a way of managing vendor distributed updates?
I'm pretty sure a remote sysadmin can initiate apt-gets with them, but I've not got the details to hand.
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I thought about webmin - I'm sure it would work, but it would be overkill and give too many options for "playing" [...]
I'm surprised if it does that if you don't give their webmin user permission to do anything else - http://doxfer.com/Webmin/WebminUsers
Google search including phrases like "apt-get" and "web interface" threw up too many false hits to be useful.
Yep, that's Google's usual performance for many web-related terms.
Regards,