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On Wednesday 16 August 2006 17:46, Karl Hiramoto wrote: |
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> Alex Efros wrote: |
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> > Yeah, your right. But there simple solution for this: update your servers |
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> > every 3-4 days, and you will be surprised how ease and quick this task |
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> > become. You'll need from a couple of seconds to 2-3 minutes in average |
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> > for such update! |
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> You have to understand that people in production environments can not do |
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> this. You can not risk a server being off line every few days.. If you |
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> have 10 severs, doing this you would 1-2 hours a week doing updates. |
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> With 100 servers, you may need a full time employee just to do updates. |
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With 100 servers some should be more or less identical giving you at least a |
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few oppertunities to save time. |
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Previously I used to work for a hosting provider and in my memory we had less |
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than one problem per server per year and we didn't even build packages |
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centrally. |
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Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (Jaervosz) |
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Operational Manager |
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Gentoo Linux Security Team |
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http://security.gentoo.org |
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