--On Thursday, May 02, 2013 5:52 PM +0200 Simone Piccardi piccardi@truelite.it wrote:
On 05/02/2013 04:08 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
--On Thursday, May 02, 2013 8:32 AM +0200 Denny Schierz linuxmail@4lin.net wrote:
but than you have to download, patch and update security fixes by your self.
Yep. Part of being a competent sys admin anyhow.
Sorry, I disagree.
A competent sysadmin has to make choices on how he has to employ his time. When having limited resources the choice you suggest can be easily seen as an incompetent wasting of time.
For example when you have to manage > 70 small server for > 70 school, applying security upgrade by recompiling apache, bind, samba, openldap (just to cite some of the services on them) every time is plain wrong. It's a waste of the scarce sysadmin time that could not be afforded.
Sorry, as someone who used to maintain some 600 servers for a major university running a very wide variety of services, I disagree. If you can't figure out an easy way to build and distribute your own packages in an automated fashion, you are putting yourself at the mercy of your distribution provider's capabilities and competence, which has been shown time and again to be severely lacking in multiple areas.
--Quanah
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