On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 12:58, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Nonsense. I run SuSE server(s), the update mechanism is excellent and > free. rpm hell? You must have misunderstood something. It never > happened to me. On my desktop, I can tick "automatic", and each time I > log in (or I click a little con in the panel), it checks for updates,
The server-relevant point here is that this update process must be completely automatic - i.e. not waiting for a user to log on to a graphical desktop. There shouldn't even be a graphical desktop installed on a server machine (although some X components are necessary to run X clients, like the occasional xterm or ethereal for real-time packet sniffing ... do that over ssh, make sure you turn the server's sshd to allow X forwarding, and provide the server with an xauth program) I fully expect that SuSE has such a mechanism, and it's probably not a suitable default for a workstation. Just make sure it runs reliably from cron on a regular basis! -jim
