Re: Alternatives to CVSUP for Security Updates and Errata

2004-08-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 26), Kenneth A. Bond said: > I currently manage several FreeBSD 4.9 and 4.10 servers that serve as > high volume web servers to several of our employees worldwide. > > As you can imagine, in firm the size of ours, various teams are > reponsible for various aspects of our

Re: Alternatives to CVSUP for Security Updates and Errata

2004-08-26 Thread Phil Schulz
Kenneth A. Bond wrote: [Has no way of upgrading sources via CVSup b/c of firewalls] If your security guys do not block SSH traffic, you could check out your sources using CVS over ssh. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html for some mirrors which allow ssh. R

Alternatives to CVSUP for Security Updates and Errata

2004-08-26 Thread Kenneth A. Bond
Hello. I am a systems adminstrator for large multi-national firm, consisting of approximately 90,000 employees. I currently manage several FreeBSD 4.9 and 4.10 servers that serve as high volume web servers to several of our employees worldwide. As you can imagine, in firm the size of ours, va