Re: Patch management tool

From: Jose Maria Lopez (jkerouac@bgsec.com)
Date: Tue Sep 07 2004 - 16:00:43 EDT


El dom, 05 de 09 de 2004 a las 09:55, Jérôme ATHIAS escribió:
> In-Reply-To: <CD516D770B376D46B464D55DF2C9E1F0029F4692@BDCRILBMCRP>
>
> Hi,
>
> nowadays, many distibutions have own tools to easily update the packages. I think about "apt-get update/upgrade" for Debian, "yum" on Fedora...
> You could probably in an easy way write a little script (maybe playing with sudo) to automate these updates and cron it.
>
> As i'm not a Linux expert, take this just like a probable way.
>
> Regards.

If you need something more sophisticated, and useful for a network
of machines running Linux then you can try The Redhat Network from
Redhat, that's it's supposed to be a very good tool to distribute
upgrades in a network with many machines.

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Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez
Director Tecnico de bgSEC
jkerouac@bgsec.com
bgSEC Seguridad y Consultoria de Sistemas Informaticos
http://www.bgsec.com
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