Am 30. Dec, 2003 schw=E4tzte Rob Wultsch so:

> As this is a g/f, not  family, or  a long  time friend, I was thinking
> about just setting up debian stable and making a cron job do an apt-get
> update; apt-get upgrade every night.
>
> This would be sufficent I trust to keep the box from getting easily crack=
ed?

I suggest only automagically updating against security. Do other updates
by hand. debian's good, but not perfect and it appears this is a system to
which you won't have ready access.

> For that matter I know that it is not a great idea to use a desktop as a
> firewall, but is it really that terrible?

For most home stuff, it's probably not that bad if it's running some form o=
f
*NIX. Using an m$ desktop as the gateway would be a good way to make sure
everyone got the viruses...

ciao,

der.hans
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