It's worth a mention that the problem with not having an update mechanism for the JRE is forensics. The elastic server stores the collected logs, which as the admin I'm not allowed access to. So a non-technical manager type person is the one with the ability to update java. He can run yum update, and I can have sudo rights to run yum update. But to be constantly downloading replacement newer JRE rpm's and stopping/starting the services becomes a big can of worms for both me and the manager. I looked in the elastic log and there no indication that java even notices the fact there is a newer version available.
On Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 2:43:18 PM UTC-7, Mark Moorcroft wrote: > > The elasticsearch wisdom seems to be to use the Oracle JRE. But has anyone > figured out how to keep the Oracle JRE updated on a standalone elastic > server that never runs a browser. I can't seem to find any documentation > about this. And I can't find any reference to a java command that checks > for pending updates on the command line. I don't see any sign that the > linux JRE has a control panel, and according to the documentation I found > Windows is the only platform the supports auto-update. Obviously if you use > the CentOS yum installed java then yum update handles the updates. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "graylog2" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
