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Re: Keeping Solaris up-to-date
From: corey () PHIX COM (Corey Lindsly)
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:52:13 -0800
Is it really a good idea to run a script as root via cron from an NFS-mounted directory? What if someone breaks root on one machine, does a quick 'su' and replaces your NFS-mounted script? Seems they would own all 50 machines by morning.
not only that, but some Solaris patches have been known to break systems and render them strange or unbootable (shocking, i know). the sensible approach, instead of automatically and blindly installing patches, might be to test each patch on one machine before applying it to the other 49 machines, lest you end up with 50 broken machines in the morning. perhaps some sysadmin functions are best left semi-automated. ---corey
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- Re: Keeping Solaris up-to-date Everett Lipman (Jan 13)
- Re: Keeping Solaris up-to-date Corey Lindsly (Jan 14)