[CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

przemolicc at poczta.fm
Thu, 21 May 2009 06:51:15 -0000

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:11:35PM +0100, Anne Wilson
wrote:
> I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a
recently-
> widowed man.  His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking,
basically
> - but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very
insecure.
>
> It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to
> keep it securely patched.  I'm wondering if it's possible to
auto-install
> security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications
> perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough.
>
> Maybe this could be done with a script run under cron.daily, so that
anacron
> picks it up?
>
> I'd be glad of any advice.

Use debian stable (currently 'lenny'). The philosophy behind stable
releases of
debian is release updates for packages only if you have security bugs.
That way when you run 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' you
download and install
only those already _installed_ packages which got security bugs.

Regards
Przemyslaw Bak (przemol)
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