[Wolves] Red Hat Enterprise Server

[Simon Burke]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:53:14 +0000, Schwuk <schwuk at schwuk.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 18:27 +0000, Peter Oliver wrote:
> > You could argue that it makes administrative sense to just install
> > everything (but have these services disabled by default).
> 
> That's not sense - that's sheer lazyness.
> 
> It *does* make 'administrative sense' to run your own apt/yum/up2date
> repository so packages can be installed as needed. It *does* make
> 'administrative sense' to use images/scripted installs so machines can
> be easily (re)built.
> 
> It *doesn't* make 'administrative sense' to install everything just
> because you have the room. It *doesn't* make administrative sense to
> install services that aren't needed - if you install all those services
> then they add your maintenance workload because they still need to be
> secured/patched even if they are disabled.
> 
I concur, its better to do it bottom up rather than top down, when you
are working with servers, The less there is,  the less there is to get
broken..
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Thanks,
SimonB