At 12:55 PM 12/2/02, you wrote:
Mark Lane wrote:
There's an easier way than using up2date. We have a script that will list
which updates apply for your architecture. That list can be used as an
argument to rpm -Fvh and all updates will be installed. To automatic this
you could just use a cronjob.
Unassisted updates certainly are cool and thorough, but I should caution
you as some users might leave their workstations in a state where an
update could result in loss of data. There is a point to the
Microsoft-world advice to "close all applications" before performing an
upgrade.
And no, switching init levels on your users isn't nice(1), ;-)
The same problem applies to up2date though.
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