Re: What about doing security updates automatically?
ARE YOU ONE OF THOSE ARABIAN PEOPLE ? HEY, GET A REAL JOB AND LEAVE ME THE
FUCK ALONE
----- Original Message -----
From: "Samu" <samu@linuxasylum.net>
To: <debian-security@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 5:11 PM
Subject: 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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Italy
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