From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 23 16:00:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 022BA16A640 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 16:00:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yann@raven.kierun.org) Received: from raven.kierun.org (raven.yorksj.ac.uk [193.61.234.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BADE543D6D for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 16:00:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yann@raven.kierun.org) Received: from yann by raven.kierun.org with local (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FiZJT-000KSl-5u for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 May 2006 17:00:51 +0100 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 17:00:51 +0100 From: Yann Golanski To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060523160051.GA78620@kierun.org> References: <20060523120100.37D2B16A54F@hub.freebsd.org> <20060523083944.H96736@eboyr.pbz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060523083944.H96736@eboyr.pbz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: "Yann Golanski, University of York, +44(0)1904-433088" Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Survey X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 16:01:21 -0000 --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Quoth Roger Marquis on Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:53:00 -0700 > Peter Jeremy wrote: > >One of the major problems with unattended/automatic updating is > >that it is hard to filter them. > It's hard to make a good case for automatic updates when manual > updates are so easy.=20 So, here is a question: I have three machines, all on different hardware but with the same version of FreeBSD that are updated manually. Now, how about I get a dozen machines... How do I do that in a reasonable amount of time? --=20 yann@kierun.org -=3D*=3D- www.kierun.= org PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEczGz91FwBp3iYxgRAmy5AJ9yGvdpW1g9t2I4BrYl+04byXTokgCfZsi2 KjuF7mBdO1v0tazPJkvGjWc= =1q// -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW--