On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:54:09 +1200 (NZST) Derek Smithies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> yeah - which is what I did. Exported the centos files via a ftp server. > > Which is the point of my comment below. > - there are times when having a ftp server is useful and required. > - which is one of the annoyances of the Internet. > The original poster asked a reasonable question, > was told, no no no, don't do that, security is bad, > But the original poster's question is reasonable - as I illustrated > with my example. > > > Derek. But surely you'd set up your own rpm depository in that situation, and add to the config for each server. Then you have centralised package management and only one access to the internet to keep current. And you'd have control of the package versions released to all of your servers. Personally, I'd not use ftp for this, but yum. Steve -- Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
