On 6 May 2003, Tim Fournet wrote: > On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 13:16, will hill wrote: > > On 2003.05.06 09:47 Dustin Puryear wrote: > > > > > You can locally store and deploy Windows updates as well. And sure, I > > > like > > > Debian or Your-Distro-Goes-Here better than Windows for a lot of things. > > > > > > > > Can you? I read somewhere about some odd problems doing that. Oh > > well, one day they might make things easy. Nahhhh, they make too much > > money the other way and that is the reason so many windows boxes sit > > unpatched. > > Yeah, we've been working on setting up the software update service here. > You've gotta set up a server that pre-downloads the patches, then > configure the clients to use that server for the automatic update > feature via group policy editor. So it helps having a domain to be able > to force it without touching every box. Also, the feature only handles > critical updates, not other things like windows media player updates or > drivers (some may argue that this is a good thing anyway)
And last time i looked, SUS only supported 2k/XP clients. We still have a pretty large installed base of 98 here. No thanks... -ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
