Re: What about doing security updates automatically?
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:16:34PM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> Hello
>
> I still haven't found an answer to this question:
>
> How do I automate security updates on debian stable, and do it in a
> secure manner?
>
sorry,
<IMHO>
i don't understand why it's difficult to type everyday, as the first
thing
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
on to a shell and then watch what happen.
you can watch the email while the system is upgrading
just putting sometimes an eye to look if all is working correctly.
i'm a system administrator and most of my time is spent to watch
mail logs or logs rather than upgrading machines.
(thanks to debian, just thought to do the same thing on a redhat ...brrrrrrr )
but if you do automatically this upgrade it could be dangerous just because
you're loosing the global situation ( e.g. a newer inetd that reopen
chargen and echo ? it can happen ), you can fall on the situation you do not
know what's running on that machine .
for this situation there's win2000 and i think it's enough for the world :-))
</IMHO>
Samuele
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