[TriLUG] debian in production

[Scott Lundgren]

Greg et. al,

How do you manage updates ? I mean scheduling, testing, roll back if 
you need to do so? I've used yum's nightly script that can 
auto-magically grabs updates. For this production environment luckily 
I'll have 2 duplicate machines. So I'll be able to apply updates to 
one, test the updates didn't break anything, then fail over to it while 
I apply the patches to the twin. Do you have a similar init.d script 
that cron runs apt-get to check for updates, do you periodically run an 
update manually, or do you subscribe to a mailing list that announces  
available updates so you can update manually when needed?

thanks for sharing your experiences,
SL


> I'll second that.  A while back I set up my first Debian server to
> replace a "well aged" Red Hat 7.1 system and was amazed at how tightly
> integrated apt-get was and how easy it was to install and configure
> standard things like Samba, etc.  Don't get me wrong, CentOS is still
> nice and "yum" helps out quite a bit but for servers Debian seems to
> be easier to administer.
>
> Greg