Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

[kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net>]

Denis wrote:
> I'm curious to know your approach to keeping your Gentoo box current
> without it becoming a full-time job.  I'm not talking about
> maintaining servers - just your "daily driver", so to say.
> 
> How often do you sync with the current portage tree and compare it
> your versions in "world"?  Should one do this once a week?  Once in
> two weeks?
> 
> How often to you update major components, like Xorg, kernel, and
> system tool chain?  As soon as new things become available, or, say,
> once a month or so?
> 
> The reason I ask is because I often don't have a lot of time to devote
> to system administration on a regular basis but do want to keep my box
> updated as much as possible.  How do some of you non-developers
> balance system administration with your "day job"?

	For the home samba server I update about once a year. My room mate 
updates the mythtv machine never. My vps instance with mail, web, etc 
does an eix-sync and glsa-check once a week and then I maybe emerge 
something once a month. I've been playing with Apache 2.2 lately which 
has been updating pretty quickly the last few weeks, but that's a bit of 
out of the ordinary.

kashani
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