It gives me the opportunity to see what would happen in the office if I did the update. My stuff is expendable (and all my important data on it's own FAT-32 drive..mountable and recoverable anywhere).
After all, I'd rather nuke my goodies rather than the office's. --jms -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dustin Puryear Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 9:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [brlug-general] RHN Enterprise I'm always a little nervous about automatically updating servers. I can't name a specific incident that would warrant this, but I am nervous nonetheless. At 08:58 AM 5/15/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Yeah, well... > >Some iT managers kinda like that. Rather than staying on the bleeding >edge, they prefer an IBM-esque release schedule. They prefer to only >take updates from "the company" and "scheduleable". It really cuts >down on playing the 'update always' game we find ourselves in a lot of >the time. It doesn't matter to me, because my FreeBSD boxes update >themselves automagically on Sunday nights at 3AM and my RedHat boxes >get RHN'ed on Saturday. > >I get reports on Monday during coffee. Gotta love it. > >--jms > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Bryce T. Pier >Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 8:14 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [brlug-general] RHN Enterprise > > >On Wednesday 14 May 2003 7:06 pm, Shannon Roddy wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Anyone on here using the red hat network enterprise tools? Or > > something similar? I have paid for 5 basic subscriptions but I will > > have to add more this year and am thinking about upgrading to the > > enterprise version so that it will give me more options for > > updating/checking/distributing tasks, etc. and was wondering if > > anyone has had good or bad experiences with it. Also - since I > > download my ISOs and I have a fair sized budget, I don't mind paying > > redhat a little for some managed support. > >I've only done the basic personal subscription as well but I'm planning >on using the enterprise ones as well for all of my non-kde servers. I >just wish >the enterprise versions didn't lag as far behind the regular releases as >they >do. > >-- >Bryce T. Pier [EMAIL PROTECTED] >IT Manager >TFN, The Football Network, Inc. > >We are dreamers, shapers, singers and makers. We study the mysteries of >laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and >invocations of equations. These are tools we employ and we know many >things. -Elric, Babylon5 > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting http://www.puryear-it.com _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
