Actually, I run a ton of production centos boxes and as long as your excludes list is setup right (aka, kernel, httpd, etc) then nightly updates are a great idea.
The key here is the idea that a potential few hours of outage on a less critical service is better than a total compromise and a potential for the entire company to go away overnight. Again, make sure the excludes list has the critical stuff in it, and you are on the security announce lists for those packages (at a minimum). -Steve On Mar 15, 2013, at 11:52 AM, Nicholas Leippe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Richard Esplin > <[email protected]> wrote: >> My home server has had Debian Stable auto-updating nightly for years, and >> never had a breakage. > > Interesting. I would still never attempt that on a production server. > Not where $ and/or my job are on /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
