>
> There is one place where Mandrake is REALLY suffering at trying to
> gain acceptability into the enterprise. A non-gui update tool. Right
> now, if I have a shop with 50 Linux servers, I am not going to log
> into each server and run MandrakeUpdate.
>
> You know what I AM going to do? I am going to have cron run up2date
> (RedHat's updater) in batch mode (on RedHat boxes in case that was not
> obvious).
>
> There are huge security reasons to load all of the shit that is needed
> for MandrakeUpdate too. I don't want X-windows and perl on my
> secrurity gateways. Way too many holes and tools for the Wiley
> Cracker thanks.
>
> How about a non-perl (and non-python for that matter -- be better than
> RH) based character based, batchable update tool already?
>
> b.
>
> --
> Brian J. Murrell
>
>
apt-get maybe
