I'm always a little nervous about automatically updating servers. I can't 
name a specific incident that would warrant this, but I am nervous nonetheless.

At 08:58 AM 5/15/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Yeah, well...
>
>Some iT managers kinda like that.  Rather than staying on the bleeding
>edge, they prefer an IBM-esque release schedule.  They prefer to only
>take updates from "the company" and "scheduleable".  It really cuts down
>on playing the 'update always' game we find ourselves in a lot of the
>time.  It doesn't matter to me, because my FreeBSD boxes update
>themselves automagically on Sunday nights at 3AM and my RedHat boxes get
>RHN'ed on Saturday.
>
>I get reports on Monday during coffee.  Gotta love it.
>
>--jms
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
>Of Bryce T. Pier
>Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 8:14 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [brlug-general] RHN Enterprise
>
>
>On Wednesday 14 May 2003 7:06 pm, Shannon Roddy wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Anyone on here using the red hat network enterprise tools?  Or
> > something similar?  I have paid for 5 basic subscriptions but I will
> > have to add more this year and am thinking about upgrading to the
> > enterprise version so that it will give me more options for
> > updating/checking/distributing tasks, etc.  and was wondering if
> > anyone has had good or bad experiences with it.  Also - since I
> > download my ISOs and I have a fair sized budget, I don't mind paying
> > redhat a little for some managed support.
>
>I've only done the basic personal subscription as well but I'm planning
>on
>using the enterprise ones as well for all of my non-kde servers. I just
>wish
>the enterprise versions didn't lag as far behind the regular releases as
>they
>do.
>
>--
>Bryce T. Pier                           [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>IT Manager
>TFN, The Football Network, Inc.
>
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