On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:34:19PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > I'd recommend you have a look at apt-proxy. Yep :-) > I don't know any mechanisms to actively push updates to the clients, but if > you're keeping a sane network environment and a minimum set of services on > the clients you should be OK with less frequent updates. I don't know any mechanisms either, but it shouldn't be too hard to do something like set up a cron job to periodically look for a certain file on whatever fileserver the clients are connected to, and if that file exists run 'apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade'. You would set a machine aside as a 'dummy client', with the same installation set as the real clients, do the update/upgrade on it by hand, check it all works, and then create the special file which signals the other clients to update/upgrade. I'm sure someone will now jump in with the name of a Debian package that does this automatically :-) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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