On 11/7/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can understand the paranoia of having your servers hacked but there is > usually a middle ground that works reasonably well. I run a script nightly > via cron but all it does is do a portage sync and then *prebuild* binary > packages for any important updates before sending an email in them > morning. I have to apply the updates manually but this gives you a chance > to test and/or rollback if need be. The only downside is that manual > intervention is required - can't have everything I suppose.
Unless we have a tool with enough intelligence to read the message spit out by the ebuild during the upgrade, and handle them correctly, I'd guess system administration is still a manual job. I do have cron jobs, but what they do are: emerge --sync, emerge --security. and do monthly/nightly backup. For software upgrades, I do them by hand, and most of the time, one-by-one. Just to ensure everything is working as intended. Hmmm, working as intended, no one here play WoW on EU realms right, :P -- Joe -- There are 3 kinds of people in the world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
