Re: Which BSD?
From: David Douthitt (ssrat_at_mailbag.com)
Date: 11/06/03
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Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 18:12:58 -0600
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 16:47:15 GMT, merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L.
Schwartz) wrote:
>I don't have time to stay up with the
>Linux-buffer-overflow-of-the-month mailing lists.
Put these in cron and you're done maintaining Linux patches:
apt-get update
apt-get -qyy upgrade
>I put OpenBSD on
>the machine serving stonehenge.com because I don't mind being a
>weekend admin, but I hate being a 24x7 admin.
One thing I've noticed about BSD... In Linux, especially ones like Red
Hat or SUSE, I can update nearly anything in the base system anywhere
at anytime - and be up-to-date and secure.
With BSD, you have to:
make world
...and pray that it rebuilds your entire massive complete one-in-all
system correctly.
Even the ports system, nice as it is - if I want to patch for a SSH
exploit, for example - I can update the port (and do) but if I want to
update the base? "Oh, gosh, I hope this works..."
For Linux:
rpm -Uvh openssh*.rpm
...and it's done. Can't BSD do this? I wish it would.... instead of
using the huge monolithic base.
David Douthitt (david@douthitt.net)
UNIX System Administrator
HP-UX, Unixware, Linux
Linux+, LPIC-1
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