>>>>> "Wayne" == Wayne Johnson <waynej at dccmn.com> writes: Wayne> David Phillips said: >> Wayne Johnson writes: >>> Installing Linux (we have a lab with ~20 PCs, might as well >>> give them some behind the wheel). >> This is a problem. What distro do you use? Do any of the >> distros with an easy installer offer a free, automatic system >> for security updates? With Debian, you could easily setup >> security updates to run nightly from ... Wayne> As far as distros, we were going to start them on Redhat Wayne> (easiest to install), with a quick overview of others. As Wayne> far as maintanance, Redhat is about as easy as others, Wayne> true, you do have to answer a survey every few months in Wayne> order to maintain their free up2date access, but I don't Wayne> think it's going to break anyone. Automatic updates are as Wayne> problematic as they are beneficial. Last week our Apache Wayne> stopped working when we picked up a perl update that Wayne> required matching changes to the httpd.conf file. The Wayne> httpd.conf file was not updated because it had local Wayne> changes. Mandrake's MandrakeUpdate has a reasonable approach to this, involving automagical diffing, but it DOES require you to understand the structure of the configuration file and it does NOT come with any on-line help. :-( _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list