Quoting Ian Bruseker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Not a bad idea (the Red Carpet idea), but alas, no X, which Red Carpet > requires, doesn't it? I wanted to see what I could make of SuSE for a DNS > server on an old dual-P133, so I don't want or need X on the machine.
Ya Red Carpet is X based. There is some way to use Red Carpet to update multiple machines over the network, but it may be one of Ximians corporate service, I'm not sure. > The programs you are thinking of to keep multiple systems up-to-date, are > you thinking of SuSE specific ones? Got a name for them? Are they a push > type thing, instead of pull like YOU on a cron job? I have never used any of these apps, but I know I have seen them around. Here are some links I found: http://www.autorpm.org/ http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~gerald/ftp/autoupdate/index.html http://www.blindjedi.org/frpms/ My guess is that most of these apps will work with any RPM distro. I also found a program called "Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE" which claims to be a command line replacement for YOU. Check it out: http://fou4s.gaugusch.at/ > And before anyone says "well if SuSE drives you so crazy, use another > distro", this machine is a little picky - it has an odd AMD SCSI system, > it's a dual-P133 which is also odd - and I have already tried several: > RedHat won't even boot the installer, Mandrake was ok, but slow compared to > SuSE, OpenBSD is highly unstable, NetBSD I just don't know enough about, > and > then there is FreeBSD - it's the only thing I've been able to run that is > stable, but I like Linux. :-) I have a few of the same machine, and I > want > to make use of them in small infrastructure jobs like firewalling, bridging > and DNS, so I want something I'd be happy rolling out to more than one > machine. Ya, I would stick with Linux as well. I think SuSE is a good distro, but there are many more out there. What about Debian or Gentoo? Jesse
