Re: FreeBSD Security Survey



Quoth Roger Marquis on Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:53:00 -0700
Peter Jeremy wrote:
One of the major problems with unattended/automatic updating is
that it is hard to filter them.
It's hard to make a good case for automatic updates when manual
updates are so easy.

So, here is a question: I have three machines, all on different hardware
but with the same version of FreeBSD that are updated manually. Now,
how about I get a dozen machines... How do I do that in a reasonable
amount of time?


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