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The best way to unattended update the OS.
ngstargate
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I have a few VPS with CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu.
What a best way to unattended update the OS you are using, or you can recommend?
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Just login from time to time and update. Unattended is risky, could break something.
If 1-2 VPS is good. But more than 10? Every time login and check - it's uncomfortable and time consuming.
run it as a cron ? yum update once a week/month ?
apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get dist-upgrade -y
for Debian based OSes.as a cron job. I wouldnt do it though. I don't have a need to be update.
package update is still okay if you're using Debian(without the testing repo) but beware with OS upgrades, there's once when I did an dist-upgrade on my Debian 7 at Ramnode and it removed upstart and there goes my box...........
upstart and debian? Can you explain this?
This is a bug in Debian 7
Not reported by me, but the problem is the same: https://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2647
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525141
Upstart and debian sounds like Ubuntu. I don't have upstart installed on my debian boxes.
You can install apticron on your debian servers and yumupdatesd on your centos servers.
This way you'll get notifications whenever updates are needed.
This is what I use.
Didn't know for Debian, thanks
and you're using Debian 7 as well? Probably its only on the SolusVM template provided by Ramnode as I use Xubuntu on my daily life so I'm particularly sure about it.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticSecurityUpdates
If you're running multiple production servers, I'd suggest you standardize on a distro.
From a sysadmin perspective, 3 Debian 6 boxes (for example) are easier to maintain than three boxes that span different distros and versions.
This is for Centos 5. Not sure if it's the same for 6.
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/sn-updating-your-system.html
Use Chef, Puppet, or something similar. If you do it right, you can perform updates with one recipe (chef term) across many different OSs.
-J
Using chef or puppet just to do updates would be unbelievably massive overkill.
Of course if you are already using it then automatic updates are already baked in.