On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 23:13:15 +0200
"Dan Roozemond" <dan+debian@banaan.org> wrote:
While we're at it - suppose someone is the only administrator of a
debian(stable) system connected to the internet permanently, with SSH,
Postfix and Bind exposed to the 'big bad' world. Say that someone is
lucky enough to take a vacation, and is not able to connect to the
machine for two weeks. How dangerous is it to have 'apt-get update;
apt-get upgrade' ran automatically every day?
No, this scenario is not entirely hypothetically ;)
Well, let's just say that I wouldn't do it unless I were going to be
looking for a new job while enjoying that 2 weeks of vacation. :-)
With Stable it should be rare for it to be a problem, for Sarge it
shouldn't be a problem very often, but there is still a chance for
problems in there somewhere.