Linux Patch Management Keeping Linux Systems Up To Date - Prentice Hall

The Start-to-Finish Patch Management Guide for Every Linux� Environment

To
keep your Linux systems secure, reliable, and productive, you must stay
current with patches and updates. But, until now, it has been difficult
to find usable, trustworthy guidance on managing patches in Linux
production environments. Linux Patch Management fills that gap,
offering Linux professionals start-to-finish solutions, strategies, and
examples for every environment, from single computers to
enterprise-class networks.

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Michael
Jang presents patching solutions for Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE, Debian, and
other distributions. He systematically covers both
distribution-specific tools and widely used community tools, such as
apt and yum. This book�s streamlined patch management techniques
minimize impacts on users, networks, and administrators, and address
applications as well as the underlying OS. Whatever your role in
managing Linux systems, Linux Patch Management will reduce your costs, enhance the availability of your systems, and dramatically improve your personal efficiency.

• Consolidating
  patches on a Red Hat network, including cached updates, as well as
  patching systems based on RHEL rebuild distributions
• Working with SUSE�s update systems, including YaST Online Update and Zenworks Linux Management
• Making the most of apt commands and the GUI-based Synaptic Package Manager
• Configuring apt for RPM distributions such as Fedora and SUSE Linux
• Creating repositories that can manage gigabytes of patches on diverse Linux systems
• Updating networks of Linux computers without overloading WAN or Internet connections
• Configuring yum clients, including coverage of emerging GUI tools such as Yum Extender

Bruce Perens� Open Source Series is
a definitive series of Linux and open source books by the world�s
leading Linux professionals. Bruce Perens is the primary author of The Open Source Definition, the formative document of the open source movement, and the former Debian GNU/Linux Project Leader.

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