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



On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 09:07:26AM -0500, Daniel Freedman wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2003, Ivo Marino wrote:
> > I've setup apt-proxy server in my network, all Debian packages for each
> > server in this network are downloaded from there.
> > 
> > I think using a cron-job like cron-apt for updating security related
> > packages automaticly on the servers not only could be a problem considering
> > the securtiy point of view but also this could corrupt a server configuration
> > and leave the system/service out of function.
> > 
> > I prefer to launch manually a script which logs via ssh into each server
> > and performs the packages update procedure.
> > 
> > Anyone has allready written a script like the one described above or
> > maybe knows an allready existing application which could perform this
> > task? Thanks.
> 
> Hi Ivo,
> 
> Not a full solutiont, but try dsh maybe: Dancer Shell or Distributed
> Shell, which can replicate commands via ssh on groups of
> nodes/servers/etc...

Thanks Daniel, I'll consider your pointer in case I write my own script.

> HTH,
> Daniel
> 
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> >  Ivo Marino                   eim@eimbox.org
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> 
> 
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