At Tue, 19 May 2009 16:11:35 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org 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.
Rather than do auto updates (sometimes there are conflicts or other issues needing *intellegent* intervention -- the recent update from CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 required that glibc be updated before the rest of the updates for example), maybe you should schedule a regular visit to this fellow. Not only will this make sure the machine is properly updated it also gives you a chance to check for any problems that will have cropped up.
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