> On 06/04/2010 07:24 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>> If you set up a big number of workstations (my pain shreshold woud >>> probably be around 20), or if you have hard requirements that the >>> workstations are really equal in patch level you should maybe consider >>> a >>> Spacewalk server: >>> >>> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/ >>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk >>> >> I was working with spacewalk a year ago. It went from 0.4 to 0.5, and as >> far as I was concerned, it is just that: *not* ready for prime time. >> >> I'd go with a cron yum -y update (don't forget the -y), or a cron rsync. >> > > Not to mention Spacewalk requires using Oracle for your database. Oh, that's right - they were allegedly working to allow postgresql, I think, but they required the free Oracle xe. Oh, and I don't know if they ever put in the bugfix I found, that you had to max out Oracle's mem to within 6m of the hard-coded 1G max. > > I use a local repo for the 50 or so servers I maintain. We've got close to 200, overwhelmingly CentOS mark