Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:11:10 -0500 (EST) From: Mitch Collinsworth <mitch@collinsworth.info> To: Carroll Kong <damascus@home.com> Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: Vendors For WU-FTPD Please Read Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10111201104060.988-100000@ruby.ccmr.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011120104126.02698ec0@netmail.home.com>
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Carroll Kong wrote: > Finally, I agree with Mike. When you start managing more and more boxes, > it becomes a serious pain in the butt. You have to worry so much more > (which is part of the job, but still), about sendmail or bind or wu-ftpd > blowing up. It is nicer if you can get something that has a few less bugs > to minimize this. Agreed, a few less is always better than a few more. But applying security updates is part of our job as sysadmins. If you have lots of boxen to look after, you need to automate the update process. There are various approaches to this. I like cfengine. We're now experimenting with PXE and auto reinstalls. There are other good approaches besides these. -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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