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I started to roll out puppet to manage our servers at work and have to say I am impressed. It really changed the way I think about managing systems and is so much cleaner and easier to understand than the ‘traditional’ way. Just being able to automate often repeated steps like enabling LDAP access or …
Running it for the first time, it seams to work well. It upgraded the packages and send me an e-mail. Here are the config files I used: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02periodic: 1 2 3 4 5 6 APT::Periodic::Enable "1"; APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1"; APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "1"; APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "5"; APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1"; APT::Periodic::RandomSleep "3600";APT::Periodic::Enable "1"; APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1"; APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "1"; APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "5"; APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1"; …
To automate the installations of updates on our servers I am experimenting with the package unattended-updates. Good introductions can be found here: http://syslog.tv/2012/01/28/automaticunattended-updates-on-debian-6-squeeze/ http://mb.walter.silvergeeks.com/rechner/automatische-updates-aus-security-in-debian-stable/ https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticSecurityUpdates/#Using_the_.22unattended-upgrades.22_package I have to admit that I am a bit uneasy, but in the past year of applying updates by hand nothing ever broke. So I assume that this should not …