[TriLUG] Newbie question reguarding YUM and Linux.

[Owen Berry]

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.