ARE YOU ONE OF THOSE ARABIAN PEOPLE ? HEY, GET A REAL JOB AND LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE
----- Original Message ----- From: "Samu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 5:11 PM Subject: Re: What about doing security updates automatically? > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:16:34PM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: > > Hello > > > > I still haven't found an answer to this question: > > > > How do I automate security updates on debian stable, and do it in a > > secure manner? > > > sorry, > > <IMHO> > i don't understand why it's difficult to type everyday, as the first > thing > > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade > > on to a shell and then watch what happen. > you can watch the email while the system is upgrading > just putting sometimes an eye to look if all is working correctly. > > i'm a system administrator and most of my time is spent to watch > mail logs or logs rather than upgrading machines. > (thanks to debian, just thought to do the same thing on a redhat ...brrrrrrr ) > > but if you do automatically this upgrade it could be dangerous just because > you're loosing the global situation ( e.g. a newer inetd that reopen > chargen and echo ? it can happen ), you can fall on the situation you do not > know what's running on that machine . > for this situation there's win2000 and i think it's enough for the world :-)) > > </IMHO> > > Samuele > > -- > Samuele Tonon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Undergraduate Student of Computer Science at University of Bologna, Italy > System administrator at Computer Science Lab's, University of Bologna, Italy > Founder & Member of A.A.H.T. > UIN 3155609 > Acid -- better living through chemistry. > Timothy Leary > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
