Oh, I thought this was for the real machines. :) At 09:31 AM 5/15/2003 -0500, you wrote: >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 > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
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