Will Lowe, on 2002-01-11, 16:12, you wrote: > Err, the security implications of such a scheme are kinda > imposing.
Of course you are right. > Simpler to use an existing tool like ssh to do the > authentication. I have a network of ~80 Debian boxen, and I do > something rougly like this: > > for host in `cat hostlist`; do > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" > done I meant such as I wrote 'or wrapper'. The problem is that every machine maintains its very own dpkg/{status,available} etc. I thought of having something central. > If you run stable, use aptwatcher > (http://people.debian.org/~lowe/aptwatcher) and each box will mail you > when you need to do something to it. Nice tool, seems to be going into some crontabs :-) Joerg -- Joerg "joergland" Wendland GPG: 51CF8417 FP: 79C0 7671 AFC7 315E 657A F318 57A3 7FBD 51CF 8417
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