> Is it really a good idea to run a script as root via cron from an > NFS-mounted directory? What if someone breaks root on one machine, > does a quick 'su' and replaces your NFS-mounted script? Seems > they would own all 50 machines by morning. not only that, but some Solaris patches have been known to break systems and render them strange or unbootable (shocking, i know). the sensible approach, instead of automatically and blindly installing patches, might be to test each patch on one machine before applying it to the other 49 machines, lest you end up with 50 broken machines in the morning. perhaps some sysadmin functions are best left semi-automated. ---corey
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