>>>>> "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.  :-(






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