On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 12:48, Lotas T Smartman wrote: > im guessing that redhat would be the option for me then. i love gentoo, > and its going on my workstation soon, but for over 8 hours a day i wont > be able to get access to my virtual server in the US if i get gentoo. if > an update comes out with redhat, its a matter of telling the website to > update it. thats it. with gentoo i have to login, rsync, emerge the > update and if its something like apache, or something thats going to > take time to recomple, it will be a good while to update. > Sorry lads. you dident loose one, i still have a linux server at home > that will be running gentoo soon, but you dident gain one. hope someone > works on a project like this soon!
As I replied to another subthread, you indeed will have access unless you block SSH from localhost, which is what running Webmin on localhost would do. With Gentoo, you set up a daily cron script to run emerge sync, then run emerge -up world and email you the output. If there are packages you feel like updating, you log in over Webmin, start a screen session (app-misc/screen), emerge -u world, detach the screen session, and leave. Then you check back later by re-logging in to Webmin and reattaching the screen session to make sure everything worked.
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