Re: I'm searching for a network wide system update tool

[Horst Pflugstaedt <horst@uni-duisburg.de>]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 12:45:03PM +0100, Ivo Marino wrote:
> Hello debian-security folks,
> 
> I'll post my question on this mailing list in the hope to find some
> interesting pointers and I'm quite sure someone in here has or has
> allready solved my same problems.
> 
> Well, I admin different Debian GNU/Linux stable machines on different
> networks, each time a new security update comes out from the DSA I actually
> update by hand via ssh all the Debian GNU/Linux servers in my network.

Although a cron-job is generally seen as insecure you might think about one
local repository for downloaded .debs which you could use for all your
other servers to use for a cron'd update/upgrade.

Any suggestions?


Greetings
Horst.

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