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Unattended linux updates
From: NSweaney at tulsacash.com (Nathan Sweaney)
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:56:02 -0500
Dan McGinn-Combs said "I used to have a Gentoo server auto-update itself. What a pain in the pah-tooey. I recently tried it with an ARCH linux box. No go. For some reason the PERL update wouldn't download and it kept bombing out." I've had similar experiences in the past as well. That's why I was wondering if anyone had actual experience with it working successfully in any particular distro. d4ncingd4n at gmail.com said "Not to be a stick in the mud but, you shouldn't allow any mission-critical servers to auto-update. Updates should be tested prior to deployment. Otherwise all hell breaks loose the instant you patch the last box. It's a cruel law of nature." Agreed, but these aren't mission-critical, just a pain when they go down. And when I made your point to the customer, they asked why a box that "might" go down would be worse than boxes that "do" go down. Several people mentioned that croning the updates should work, and I'm working on a few testbeds, but I've still yet to find anyone that actually does it (and is happy) with distro X. - Nathan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pauldotcom.com/pipermail/pauldotcom/attachments/20090720/2a30ccc0/attachment.htm
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