Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 17:19:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> Cc: FreeBSD Question List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades Message-ID: <20040608171228.F64702@pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <40C5BCAC.6090401@circlesquared.com> References: <40C5BCAC.6090401@circlesquared.com>
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On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Peter Risdon wrote: > The main cost of having computers for most companies lies not in software or > hardware, but in support. I have been pondering the wisdom of automating the > upgrade process, so that sources are cvsup'ed nightly and make buildworld > buildkernel etc and portupgrade happen overnight maybe once a week or month - > and perhaps every day a security fix is announced. > [...] > I'd be grateful for any input on this. I can picture waking up to find that > every machine I administrate is simultaneously *#!$%ed one morning. This would be the necessary result of complete automatization, wouldn't it? Did you think about remote access? All administrative tasks on a FreeBSD system can be done via ssh from a text console. Thus you wouldn't have to be present personally, but keep full control of things. Regards, Uli. > Peter. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > +---------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---------------------------+
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