The process of applying, or files used to apply, improvements to a system or program. An update is typically encompasses minor changes and improvements, relative to an upgrade.
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on Red Hat Enterprise and CentOS, what is creating /var/run/reboot-required?
On CentOS 5.8+ and Red Hat Enterprise 6+, when installing/updating packages, I notice a flag file /var/run/reboot-required is created when appropriate. On Ubuntu (and Debian too, I'm guessing), if package "update-notifier-common" is installed, a…
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Firmware Best Practices and Update Schedules
Firmware receives very little attention when it comes to updates. Out of sight, out of mind.
Many devices: RAID controllers, NICs, chipsets, and even hard drives, get some benefit from being updated. Better features, security/bug fixes, etc.
Most…
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To update or to not update?
Since starting working where I am working now, I've been in an endless struggle with my boss and coworkers in regard to updating systems.
I of course totally agree that any update (be it firmware, O.S. or application) should not be applied…
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How to Create Yum Cache Server for client machines in LAN
Like in Ubuntu we have the option of creating "Ubuntu update cache server" which downloads and update packages directly from internet and serves other client ubuntu machines for installing/updating packages. In the same way for RHEL based…
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System updates for many servers
We have many servers and still want to update them all. The actual way is that any of the sysadmins go from server to server and make a aptitude update && aptitude upgrade - it's still not cool.
I am searching now for a solution which is still…
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Debian Wheezy outdated root certificates
I've ran into a strange problem where a server that's running Debian 7 won't connect to some websites using SSL. After debugging, it turns out that the root certificates for those sites are not known and therefore not trusted. The case I was…
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Can you change windows update settings via command line?
I sent out some servers(running server 2008R2 x64) without checking their windows update settings...fail. By default they are set to automatically download and install. I need them to download but not install. Can this be done through command-line?…
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Centralized Windows/Mac Patch Management that is easy to use
I'm looking for advice on what patch management solutions you would recommend based upon your experience. I'm also looking for which ones you would not recommend based upon your experience.
We have a mixed network of Windows and Mac clients. Our…
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Safe to have /.svn/ folders on live site? (How to remove them but retain svn update capability?)
I'm doing svn update to update the code for my php website, but it leaves .svn/ folders all over.
I think its dangerous to leave those files publically readable, but its very easy to update the system.
Is there a way to use svn update to update the…
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How to upgrade software installed from source?
I install NGinx from source since the packages from the ubuntu repository are quite old. I was wondering what is the best method to upgrade these types of installations?
My current workflow involves.
Downloading the new source
Install the software…
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How do you get the latest update for Java 6?
An application my company is considering buying requires Java 6. I am concerned that this is quite out of date and am recommending against the application as a result. But it seems that Oracle do still release updates for v6.
They state that they…
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What is the best time to schedule regular updates on inhouse production server?
Given an inhouse server running in production mode I would like to keep the impact on the users as low as possible when deploying regular updates (to the server itself, not the user machines .. but that would be a pretty similar problem).
The…
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How to accept EULAs for Software updates deployed through SCCM using Powershell
I'm trying to use the Start-CMSoftwareUpdateDeployment cmdlet to deploy a software update group to an existing collection.
PS WHO:\> Start-CMSoftwareUpdateDeployment -SoftwareUpdateGroupName "Update Group - Microsoft Updates" -CollectionName…
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I deployed Flash Player via a Software Installation policy. How to upgrade?
I have a Windows Server 2008 machine as my DC. Earlier this year I created a Software Installation GPO to deploy Adobe Flash Player plugin MSI. I assigned the policy to the computers, about half run Windows XP x86 and the other half Windows 7 x64.…
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apt-get update mdadm scary warnings
Just ran an apt-get update on one of my dedicated servers to be left with a relatively scary warning:
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem
W: mdadm: the array /dev/md/1 with…
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