Ubuntu CD's for Free

[Kurt Wall]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:15:28AM -0500, A. Khattri took 44 lines to write:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
> > How many servers are you maintaining.  I can't fathom maintaining alarge
> > number of server (where large is 100+) with the 'very easy to customize
> > and very easy to maintain' method that you've noted above.
> 
> Why not? Its no different from setting up a local up-to-date repository
> for your servers to update against. Even, better, if all your machines are
> x86, you can pre-build binary packages at night automatically and
> distribute them as part of a later rsync process so the binaries are
> already there in the morning.

Please define "night." In my environment, "night" is broad daylight
for half of the people whaling on my servers. The point being that there's
no "best" time for upgrades as defined by usage. We simply notify users
ahead of time of planned downtime if we can't slipstream the update or
switch to a redundant service on another system.

Kurt
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