Good point, if the boxes where on the internet I would be more concern on the hacking part but then again if they were on the internet, then up2date would be used. Downloading patches from the net should always be available. In my case, the systems are not on the internet (and probably never will be) and therefore getting updates are obtained via other methods - downloading the patches one by one - and then transfered via CD to the systems, much in the same line that krud is doing, so krud may have a good deal for us gaint corporate users :). Another solution would to replace my NT junk with RH and then I can have up2date put the patches in a seperate directory that can then be distributed to the non-internet systems via CD.
smbinyon -----Original Message----- From: Rodolfo J. Paiz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: updates not over the web At 2/1/2002 03:27 PM +0000, you wrote: >Yea, I agree it would be an expense on RH side to supply CDs, but it may >pass as a paid service for us big corporate users (but I'm still thinking on >that one). The krud site is interesting, seems they are doing the same >thing that I'm doing. If you're a big corporate user, you have Internet bandwidth somehow. I'll bet that if you run the numbers of what it would take in money and time to get a CD to you outside the USA to most places, it's cheaper and quicker to get it off the Internet. Time is just as important as money. Would you like to get a box hacked because "the monthly update CD hasn't arrived yet"? -- Rodolfo J. Paiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
