On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 10:18:41PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote:
> > Incidentally the best reason I can think of for using Debian over RedHat
> > from a sysadmin's point of view is that security fixes on Debian arrive
> > very fast and are implemented into the distributions at once, keeping
> > your setup secure is normally a matter of issuing 2 commands a week:-
> > apt-get update
> > apt-get upgrade
>
> what reason would there be for a small one-horse sysadmin
> (with very small brain pan) to NOT have cron do something like
>
> # m h dom mo dow
> 30 3 * * 1 apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade
Well, when shit goes to hit the fan you want to be there with the
tarpaulin ready to catch it rather then come back later and find your
room in a dripping mess. :)
> and (getting back to the original question of red hat vs. debian)
> does red-hat have anything comparable?
No AFAIK. In fact, cominbing the deb vs rh and the above, the recent rh
update to glibc 2.0.7 (the security update) brakes tcsh (which, inturn
breaks csh as it's a symlink to tcsh, which inturn breaks perl's <*>
globbing...). Now, if, for example, the debian package was as broken,
and you did an automated upgrade and it broke things that are a wee bit
more severe and you couldn't login or whatnot, you'd be in serious poo.
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