I will talk to dindin about mandrake-update...
The difference with a RPM, is that:
1) oops a file libveryimportant.so is deleted.
2) The system cron, check from rpms and find out that rpm whatever.rpm is
the one installing libveryimportant.so
3) The system does not re-instal the rpm whatever.rpm (you loose your config
files), but simply extract libveryimportant.so and copy it where it should
be. Mail to admin is sent...
You system is kept maintained with all necessary files to run. Extra a
hacker trying to infiltrate your system will be defeated as his trojan
software will be replaced...
Cheers.
Franck Martin
Database Development Officer
SOPAC South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission
Fiji
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chmouel Boudjnah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 11:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: David odin
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Helix Gnome + Mandrake menus (mdk7.1)
Franck Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Could you please at least have the mandrake-update read where to find
> the mirror list from a file /etc/mandrake-update.conf. This should be
> easy and make us, network administrator, happy...(save bandwidth as well
> as work). That should be easy...
all suggetion for Mandrake-update go to dindin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On the long long term, and very very difficult, I found a firm that
> proposes something like SMS, but with the extra monitoring of system
> files, which gets reinstalled if deleted by mistake, on a per machine
> basis.
how difference is from rpm ?
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San-Francisco, CA USA --Chmouel
