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I wonder... I wonder if Yast or something can be started automatically to check if there are updates and then pop a message or send an email to the users, advising of it. On Thursday 01 May 2003 14:31, Carlos E. R. wrote: The 03.05.01 at 14:52, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
You absolutely _must_ install (and verify that it's working) an autoupdate script, because their box will be always online, and easy target for script kiddies.
Are you sure that's wise? If it bombs, they won't know a thing about it, just that the machine stops working. On the other hand, firing up YOU manually is not too difficult, with the advantage that if it breaks down they know what they were doing, and can tell the local/remote guru.
8.2 has this. It sits in the system tray and will tell you when an update installed on the sys comes up. That way you don't have to bring up YOU everytime and then WWWWAAAAIIIITTTT for the db to get updated while it runs through the updates list against your sys configs. I have heard that some have had some ancillary problems with this running in the background. But, since this is a setup for a older couple that has minimal req's (webbrowing, email, word processing) then it should be pretty much a no-brainer. Cheers, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+sssq7WVLiDrqeksRAmGdAKCFE8DVHG7OLUqL9yLSOH2RzHFGEgCgusQT fA6SK/Pkdi9A9wBmDeLwATE= =0/5J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----