Will Lowe, on 2002-01-11, 16:12, you wrote:
> Err, the security implications of such a scheme are kinda
> imposing.
Of course you are right.
> Simpler to use an existing tool like ssh to do the
> authentication. I have a network of ~80 Debian boxen, and I do
> something rougly like this:
>
> for host in `cat hostlist`; do
> ssh root@${host} "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade"
> done
I meant such as I wrote 'or wrapper'. The problem is that every machine
maintains its very own dpkg/{status,available} etc. I thought of having
something central.
> If you run stable, use aptwatcher
> (http://people.debian.org/~lowe/aptwatcher) and each box will mail you
> when you need to do something to it.
Nice tool, seems to be going into some crontabs :-)
Joerg
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