[pca] Considering PCA - no internet access on network

[Martin Paul]

This was directed at the pca mailing list, but somehow got bounced only 
to the list owner (me). So I'm forwarding it to the list.

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Subject: Considering PCA - no internet access on network
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:35:30 -0500
From: Beth Morin <bethndav21 at cox.net>

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>> Our network has NO internet access so we have to sneaker net our patches into the system.
>> 
>> I have been reading a bit about PCA and see that you can use a local server. Would it be reasonable to say that I could set up a "patch server" on one box, manually update my patches on that one box and have PCA point to it on all my other boxes to automate patch management?
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>> Any gotchya's to this type of approach? Other than obviously having to manually add the patches an patch reference files to one single server.
>> 
>> If PCA is what I am reading then this will save our organization running primarily Solaris a ton of man hours so hopefully I can do this with my setup. Been reading and it appears that I can but want to put it out to those on this list that actually run it.