[TriLUG] Trust up2date ?

Justin Johnson justin at eCotton.com
Fri Dec 14 10:39:52 EST 2001


> I have two web servers, one development, one production.  It seems
> that the easiest thing to do to keep these machines current re:errata
> and security alerts is to use up2date.  It seems to take less time
> than tracing down all the dependencies I might not have up to date (
> like now when I'm trying to update my ssh stuff ).  The only issue is
> can I trust it not to render my machine(s) useless?

I used up2date to update 3 machines I installed  last week, kernel and all.
No problems here. It was actually quite easy to do.


> What do you, the experts, do ?
I'm certainly not one of these though.....




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