On Wednesday 16 August 2006 17:46, Karl Hiramoto wrote: > Alex Efros wrote: > > Yeah, your right. But there simple solution for this: update your servers > > every 3-4 days, and you will be surprised how ease and quick this task > > become. You'll need from a couple of seconds to 2-3 minutes in average > > for such update! > > You have to understand that people in production environments can not do > this. You can not risk a server being off line every few days.. If you > have 10 severs, doing this you would 1-2 hours a week doing updates. > With 100 servers, you may need a full time employee just to do updates. With 100 servers some should be more or less identical giving you at least a few oppertunities to save time.
Previously I used to work for a hosting provider and in my memory we had less than one problem per server per year and we didn't even build packages centrally. -- Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (Jaervosz) Operational Manager Gentoo Linux Security Team http://security.gentoo.org
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