On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 14:37 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:22 AM, JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:11 +0100, Anne Wilson 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. > >> > >> Anne > > --- > > That's just the thing you don't have to do anything. Yumupdatesd will > > handle that for you. Or stop the service and put on a cronjob. Just that > > easy. > > The NSA manual suggests disabling yum-updatesd and doing it with a > cron job. update yum and then update. --- I do not disagree with that. But we have a problem you see! That problem is an ordinary user has of no use in reading that manual. I in fact have tried that with my father in law. All he was interested in was email web browsing and saving his pictures. Especially if he/she is new to Linux or computers. JohnStanley