hey tony the link to your web page on manchester uni's webite returns a 404
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 16:10 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: > Mac, > > Mac wrote: > > > I don't know how essential upnp is - any advice? But I'm a bit > > surprised that automatic updating needs to be added - is that right? > > Isn't upnp used by some applications to control a router/firewall to let > in incoming connections etc? I'd have thought this wasn't necessary on a > server! > > Some would argue that automatic updates on a server is a bad thing > because in general you want your server to be stable and you don't want > some automatic update breaking it. Although I admit the risk of this is > quite low with Ubuntu. > > On a server it's quite easy to set up. Just create a cron job under root > that does 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' and run the job at a > convenient time. This assumes the servers is running 24x7! > > Regards, > Tony. > -- > Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, > IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. > T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 > E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
