• Title Linux Patch Management: Keeping Linux Systems Up To Date
• Author(s) Michael Jang
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (January 19, 2006)
• Paperback 288 pages
• eBook: PDF, 8.47 MB
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0132366754
• ISBN-13: 978-0132366755
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Book Description

This book is the first start-to-finish guide to patching Linux systems in production environments.

It presents patching solutions for Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE, Debian, and other distributions. It 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

• Jeff Heaton is an author, college instructor, and consultant. Jeff lives in Chesterfield (St. Louis), Missouri. The author of seven books and over two dozen journal and magazine articles, Jeff specializes in Internet, socket-level/spidering and Artificial Intelligence programming. Jeff has worked with companies such as MasterCard, Anheuser-Busch and Boeing. A Sun Certified Java Programmer and a Senior Member of the IEEE. Jeff holds a Masters Degree in Information Management from Washington University in St. Louis.

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