From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 8 15:17:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8FDD16A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 15:17:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dsl-mail.kamp.net (mail.kamp-dsl.de [195.62.99.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D575C43D2D for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 15:17:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: (qmail 26897 invoked by uid 513); 8 Jun 2004 15:20:46 -0000 Received: from root@pukruppa.de by dsl-mail by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.21 Clear:RC:1(213.146.114.24):SA:0(-4.9/5.0):. Processed in 0.512491 secs); 08 Jun 2004 15:20:46 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO reverse-213-146-114-24.dialin.kamp-dsl.de) (213.146.114.24) by dsl-mail.kamp.net with SMTP; 8 Jun 2004 15:20:45 -0000 Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 17:19:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa X-X-Sender: root@pukruppa.net To: Peter Risdon In-Reply-To: <40C5BCAC.6090401@circlesquared.com> Message-ID: <20040608171228.F64702@pukruppa.net> References: <40C5BCAC.6090401@circlesquared.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: FreeBSD Question List Subject: Re: Wisdom of automating upgrades X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:17:52 -0000 On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Peter Risdon wrote: > The main cost of having computers for most companies lies not in software or > hardware, but in support. I have been pondering the wisdom of automating the > upgrade process, so that sources are cvsup'ed nightly and make buildworld > buildkernel etc and portupgrade happen overnight maybe once a week or month - > and perhaps every day a security fix is announced. > [...] > I'd be grateful for any input on this. I can picture waking up to find that > every machine I administrate is simultaneously *#!$%ed one morning. This would be the necessary result of complete automatization, wouldn't it? Did you think about remote access? All administrative tasks on a FreeBSD system can be done via ssh from a text console. Thus you wouldn't have to be present personally, but keep full control of things. Regards, Uli. > Peter. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > +---------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---------------------------+