RE: Internet browsers on servers [Was: upgrading to IE6 on w2k servers]

[Mircea MITU <mmitu () bitdefender com>]

On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 08:17 -0500, Bob Walker wrote:
> Well... Yes, there is at least one good reason for having a browser on a
> server.  It is the most efficient means of getting updates and
> installing them. I suppose you could always go back to the old
> "sneaker-net" method, but with today's customized update installations
> and patches, getting updates on one machine, to install on another,
> quite probably wouldn't be all that effective.

I suppose you never heard about apt, dsh, rhn & friends.

Tell me how you can update hundreds or thousands of machines/servers in
less than X seconds/minutes using the browser from every machine/server.

Also you can "search & replace" the "update" word in the above sentence
with "order tasks" and run the command again ;P




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