At Tue, 19 May 2009 16:11:35 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at 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. > > Anne > Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEABECAAYFAkoSzCcACgkQbMErw/n0TZol0QCeOYPbXqm0bp+eERku7KTP7ugn > dNwAn14zTxP1/YJOf4PrXjAimhkW/v37 > =DW3r > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/