[ubuntu-uk] Advice re 8.04 server edition

Wayne Roberts wayne_roberts386 at o2.co.uk
Sun Jul 20 19:22:10 BST 2008


hey tony the link to your web page on manchester uni's webite returns a
404


On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 16:10 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
> Mac,
> 
> Mac wrote:
> 
> > I don't know how essential upnp is - any advice?  But I'm a bit 
> > surprised that automatic updating needs to be added - is that right?
> 
> Isn't upnp used by some applications to control a router/firewall to let
> in incoming connections etc? I'd have thought this wasn't necessary on a
> server!
> 
> Some would argue that automatic updates on a server is a bad thing
> because in general you want your server to be stable and you don't want
> some automatic update breaking it. Although I admit the risk of this is
> quite low with Ubuntu.
> 
> On a server it's quite easy to set up. Just create a cron job under root
> that does 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' and run the job at a
> convenient time. This assumes the servers is running 24x7!
> 
> Regards,
> Tony.
> -- 
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> IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL.
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