Re: Maintaining Linux Desktop (RH WS 3.0)

[Christopher McCrory <chrismcc gmail com>]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:22:02 +0200 (CEST), mhautreu insa-rouen fr
<mhautreu insa-rouen fr> wrote:
> There is Yum which will do a good job...
> 
> 

I second yum

cat /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron
#!/bin/sh
UPS[0]="$(/usr/bin/yum -R 2 -e 1 -d 1 check-update)"
if [ -n "${UPS}" ] ; then
  echo "${UPS}" | mail -s "yum, yum ${HOSTNAME}" admin example com
fi
/usr/bin/yum -e 1 -d 1 clean


you could add something like

operator ALL=(root) /usr/bin/yum
to sudoers

and setup ssh keys on all the desktops for user operator #or other

operator yum repo#
for server in A B C
 do
   ssh -t $server yum -y update
done

> 
> > Hi
> >
> > I am working in a big company with more than 600 Linux
> > workstations and I am searching right now for a
> > program or a way to maintain the workstations and
> > update them (rpms, files...) when I want.
> >
> > Is there anyway to do all that? I only found apt.
> >
> >
> > BTW: We are using "Linux Redhat Workstation 3.0"
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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