Software Push

[Jonathan Hutchins]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Clinton" <clintonj at umkc.edu>

> Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> > What does a Linux Server environment offer that can push software
updates to
> > (Windows NT/2000) machines?

> A login batch file? Why not?

Well, yeah.  I suppose you can even use the SMS extensions for NT/2000 that
give you the equivalent of sudo/suexec and let a program run with admin
privileges under a user-level ID, but I was wondering if anybody'd seen a
package.  It's possible, but difficult, to do OS updates in the login
script.

(Seems to me that CA's massive network management suite will run on *NIX and
has the ability to do updates.)