Rick DeNatale wrote: > I'd be interested in RECENT experiences of linux updates, which have > caused problems. Not saying that they haven't occured, just that I > haven't experienced them.
Two recent experiences (within last two weeks) My predecessor had configured the department web server to autoupdate via yum. A new version of the httpd RPMs came out recently and were auto-installed resulting in web services becoming unavailable when a bad default ssl.conf got activated. The previous default ssl.conf file had been moved out of the way so when the new httpd RPM updated it dropped its default ssl.conf in and tried to use it. This isn't precisely an auto-update situation, but is still relevant. I have part ownership in a server rented from a large hosting company running RHEL. We had problems with the RHN entitlement and after several go-rounds with the hosting company technical support they got it straightened out and then, against specific instructions from us, ran up2date to update all the RPMs. We wanted to do that ourselves so we could control it. The update installed a new version of the cachine-nameserver RPM which blithely moved our existing named.conf out of the way and installed it's own named.conf in its place, borking the domains we were serving DNS for from that box. --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ Carolina Spirit Quest http://www.carolinaspiritquest.org/ My LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com/users/labrown/ GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer -- 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/
