on 10-10-2008 12:59 PM Filipe Brandenburger spake the following: > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:27:45 -0400, Toby Bluhm wrote: >> Is there a reason why you don't want your machine updated? > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:07, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> Yes indeed! [...] > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 14:42, Scott Silva > <ssilva-m4n3GYAQT2lWk0Htik3J/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> He didn't say he wasn't going to update, > > Yes, he did! :-) > >> he just said he wants to do it on his >> schedule. Nothing wrong with that. As a matter of fact, it is more proper to >> update when you have tested on an enterprise system. > > Agreed, in particular with updates that bump a release (5.1 -> 5.2), I > also do it manually and not automatically.
But if you cron yum, it can't tell if it is a normal update or a major release. Better to monitor the announce list and apply updates at the quickest convenience. I will usually yum update --downloadonly when I am there, and then I can script an update after hours and send a confirming e-mail to my blackberry when it is done. Or I can watch it since the download is usually most of the session time. I have a few less critical systems on auto-update like the 2 servers stuffed with drives as rsync targets. They can be offline for a day if something happens, but the mailservers and the fileservers need to be up EVERY day during business hours or I get unhappy exec's calling me. > > However, nowadays I consider updating the system and applying security > patches an essential part of the sysadmin role in a Linux environment. > > Filipe -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
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