On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 04:58:42PM +0200, Benno Senoner wrote:
> Hi,
[...]
> The ideal would be to have a little client on every RH distro shipped which ie
> polls the REDHAT's central webserver (or maybe a custom server, the protocol
> doesn't matter here), and retrieves information about which rpms have to be
> updated, with flags describing the security urgency.
I have written such an upgrade script, relying on 3 directories
/var/updates/RPMS|data|shell for big Cluster installations. Of course, the
Sysadmin should know what todo. The RPM Directory is for RPM's
(upgrade-RPMS from Redhat errata, but only the needed RPMS for the
Systems. I think it should be pretty easy to write expand the script to
only upgrade the already installed packages). The data directory is
fordetaining non RPM's files, and the shell directory is for shellscripts
to fix system files using scripts or repairing the *.rpmsave stuff if the
packages are config-file compatible, and this directory is parsed for
execution after the RPM directory.
It should be feairly simple to use this script to automate the
process for this.
But ! ifa large company is running linux, I think that this company
is having an able sysadmin, if not, their management would be
irresponsible as all Windows-Based networks.
Just my 2 cents.
Joerg
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