Automatic and silent installation of security updates

Jerry Haltom wasabi at larvalstage.net
Fri Jul 8 20:29:34 CDT 2005


> You can't force people to upgrade.

In a corporate deployment it is almost unacceptable to not be able to.
At the same time, I don't want to schedule a cron at 2 AM because people
might turn their system off. I also don't want to force it at boot
because people might want to do it later because they have a job to do
and can't spare the time.

A decent ability to require updates to be installed that are more than a
week old, and to automatically install/reboot when not logged on, would
be awesome. That's what we do with our Windows desktops and it works
nearly perfectly.

-- 
Jerry Haltom <wasabi at larvalstage.net>




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