On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:11 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently-
> widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking, basically
> - but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very insecure.
>
> It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to
> keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install
> security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications
> perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough.
>
> Maybe this could be done with a script run under cron.daily, so that anacron
> picks it up?
>
> I'd be glad of any advice.
>
> Anne
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That's just the thing you don't have to do anything. Yumupdatesd will
handle that for you. Or stop the service and put on a cronjob. Just that
easy.
JohnStanley
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