Unattended linux updates

[dale at puredistortion.com (Dale Stirling)]

I have heaps of success with un attended updates using RHEL/Centos.

Building you own RPM repository and only adding in the RHEL/Centos patches
that you have tested in the lab and having yum check and update these tested
packages hands free has worked well for me.

I also have to add my cudos for puppet especialy in combination with CFT
which is a RedHat emerging tech project http://cft.et.redhat.com/ and make
creating a puppet manifest a breeze.

Dale


On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:20 AM, Nathan Sweaney <NSweaney at tulsacash.com>wrote:

>  Is anyone experienced with unattended updates with any linux distros?  I
> have a client who has 20 or so boxes with very minimal requirements.
> Basically they just need to run & keep themselves updated with minimal
> interaction.  Security is the primary reason for wanting to do the updates
> as the local networks also host other systems that are somewhat varied.
> There won?t be any externally-accessible services running and unless there
> are problems no one will ever interact with the boxes.  They don?t even have
> keyboards, mice or monitors.
>
>
>
> Any recommendations for a linux distro that can auto-update with minimal
> problems?
>
>
>
> - Nathan
>
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