----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan M. Stewart" <astewart@greenpoints.com> To: <psyche-list@redhat.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 1:26 PM Subject: Pushing updates ? > > What is the best way to update many servers at customer sites? > > Let say for example that a new SSH package comes out. Since this is > security related, we probably DO want to get this update on all > of our servers in customer sites. Isn't there something better > than telnet'ing into each server, FTP'ing (or other method) a RPM > there and running RPM to update. > > There is rsync, but that end runs around the RPM package manager. > Since these servers may not be identical clones, I think package > management is recommended. Yes? > > Caldera gave us a sales presentation about a year ago and they had > something (volution?) that did this, but their licensing costs were > way high. They priced themselves out of the picture. Does RedHat > or any third party have something to make remote system/package > management easier for many (100+) systems? > > Allan Hello, 2 come to mind, the first is 'yum' http://www.dulug.duke.edu/yum/ the second is 'frpms' http://www.blindjedi.org/frpms/ Basically you mirror the updates to a local ftp/http server and then fetch them from the client from cron. Kevin Brouelette, RHCE -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
