I know this is not a popular opinion, but you should NEVER/EVER put in packages blindly. By allowing yum to update automatically, you have NO idea what is going to be put on your system.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Owen Berry > Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 9:39 AM > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Newbie question reguarding YUM and Linux. > > My humble opinion is that you should never let it run automatically. > Depending on your distribution, dependancies should not be a problem, > but you never know. Also, config files sometimes need to be updated, > and, also depending on the distribution, you might need to restart > services by hand. > > What you can do automatically is to run yum with check-update > and email > the results to yourself. That way you can tell if you have updates > available. > > Owen > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 08:05:43AM -0500, Chad Thomsen wrote: > > Is it adviseable to run YUM and let the system update > itself. I would tend > > to think that any dependencies on files being updated may > cause issue with > > the software that has created the depedencies. As I am much more > > experienced in the windows realm of netork administration, > I would NEVER > > let my servers update themselves automatically. There has > been too many > > times where a patch from MS fubared a major application or > caused other > > issues. I am guessing that the same issue exists with > Linux (or with any OS > > for that matter) but to a lesser degree as in my ventures > into the world of > > Linux has revealed it to be a much more robust, stable, > efficenent and > > secure system. > -- > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
