At 16:58 10/1/99 +0200, Benno Senoner wrote:
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>comments ?
none that haven't already been said... I can't emphasis enought the point
that others mention: if a company has that many Linux (or any form of *nix)
boxen then they must have a competent admin group, and that group will use
the tools available AutoRPM is one, there are others. This is not the
problem that the hacks (in the journalistic sense) at pcweek online make
it out to be. Remember that these guys work for Ziff-Davis. . . .
One IBM facility has a few thousand RS/6000s spread all over the place, in
every form of use from dedicated host controllers to development workstations
and network server farms of any type imaginable. They also have a mandate from
Site IT that all machines be re-IPL'd every two weeks, and a nag screen that
bugs the hell out of anyone on the console after that time has elapsed, to the
point that before leaving you'll logout of X and issue a reboot command just
to make the #^%%^*!@ red window go away. My first response to this was
basically:
WTF? I mean this is IBM, we make AIX and RS/6000s... don't we have any better
view of their reliability and uptime than that? Well yes, they do... there are
machines that have gone years without an IPL (in protected enclaves of the
labs
where they bring in generators for the weekend of the annual power shutdown)
and many more that only get IPL'd once a year. Why then do they have this
policy? Becuase the last step of the shutdown process, and the first step of
the bringup process on these machines is to fetch any updates from the site's
master servers and bring all code up to date. Done. I as a user never need to
worry about administrating the box on my desk. (would that I could say that
for
it's sibling NT box... sigh.)
They use installp... we use RPM... what's the difference?
>PS: I heard that RH 6.1 will have some upgrading features over the internet,
>could someone tell us more about this ?
rpm -Uhv ftp://yourFavorite.mirrorOf.RedHat/errata/path/foo1.2.3-4.i386.rpm
which part don't you grok?
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