Hi there, I have a suggestion to you security guys, that could make life a lot easier for a lot of us out here, and at the same time really make the SuSE security update feature shine, compared to the other linux distributions. I have noticed that since 24/9-00 six updates to SuSE 7.0 has been posted on your security site. At this rate it could turn out to be a very time consuming job having to update Linux all the time. To make this a much easier task, I suggest that you, on top of the usual downloadable update files, make available a gzip file containing all the updates relevant to your latest distribution (7.0 at this moment). Every time a new update is posted you also post a new gzip file that includes all earlier updates AND the new one. This file could be called SU1, SU2... SUn. (SU = Security Update). The gzip file should, besides the .rpm files, include a shell script that could automate all the updates. The script could maybe do something like this: for (first_update to last_update present in the gzip file) do { if (module or program that the updated relates to is installed on the target system) { do_update = false if (this update is older then the one installed) do_update = ask_user_if_ok_to_update () else if (module has not been updated) { if (running update will overwrite config file(s) that the user/system may have edited) { if (do_update = ask_user_if_ok_to_update ()) make copy (.bak) of config file(s) } } if (do_update) run the rmp update } else do_nothing } A procedure like this could really make a difference. Updating could now be almost totally automated, and if SuSE would post an e-mail to this forum when a new update is released, I'm sure a lot of SuSE installations would be updated much more frequently then is the case today. I for one would update our systems a lot more frequently. Lets also say that you put a subject string like "Announce: SuSE security update SU05 is released ...." in the e-mail, and in the Message body a link to the newest update file. Users could then make a filter in their e-mail client that would redirect all mail coming from SuSE containing this subject string, to a high priority mailbox. When the user opens the mail, he just clicks on the link and this baby would rock'n role. Of cause I could write the script my self, but that would not make the downloading easier at all, and here I see a opportunity for SuSE, with very little effort, to really make thinks much more "user friendly". Thanks in advance Bo Jacobsen bjc@image.dk