On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 13:07, Brian Hirt wrote: > Like lots of users out there, my company used to use Red Hat Network to > support our boxes. One of the things i really liked about RHN was > that you could remotely administer a bunch of servers fairly easily > without having to log onto each machine to check for updates or to > install updates. I'm aware that Yum and others packages can be run > from cron to automatically install packages. However, if you want a > little bit more control over what you install and when you install > them, I haven't seen something out there that suits me. > > I spent some time whipping up a little system that is similar to RHN. > The administration is from a web page where you can view which > components on your servers are out of date and request that the > remotely administered systems update certain packages. Each of the > remotely administered systems checks in with the central database and > updates packages that it's been requested to update. The administered > boxes also notify the central server when if finds new packages that > should be updated. > If someone wants to run that in their infrastructure that's fine but I don't think fedoralegacy has the machine power or human power to maintain something like that. -sv -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
