----- Message from rainer at ultra-secure.de --------- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:08:06 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de> Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS] centralized patch management To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > Terry schrieb: >> Hello, >> >> I have been asked to come up with a strategy for centralized patch >> management of our linux servers. Today, this is only centos and rhel. >> What is everyone else doing in this arena? >> >> > > > I investigated this earlier. > The only thing that seems halfway usable is pakiti: > http://pakiti.sourceforge.net/ > > People who think that running "yum update" every night is a solution > should go back and do some research. > This is how it might work at home (mostly), but not the way you deploy > patches to a large number of systems who serve different purposes and > thus have different package-selections, user-requirements, > patch-policies and downtime-schemas etc.pp. > > I hope to be able to test pakiti soon. > > > > cheers, > Rainer > _______________________________________________ Ok, so what would you suggest is a good practice for a hosting environment with a few different RH based (CentOS & Fedora Core) servers, all doing different stuff? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers