It's unpopular? I would like to hear some arguments for automatically updating a system ... I don't know of any good reason to. If you want to be sure it stays up to date - have it email you when updates are available, and then do it by hand.
Owen On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:24:34PM -0500, Blackburn, Marvin wrote: > 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/
