mysql-server

[Paul]

On Thu, March 31, 2005 6:30 pm, Eric Rostetter said:
>
> For anyone who wants to further study the issue of "best practices" for
> update managment, the following Microsoft (of all things) link may be of
> interest.  While it is specific to Microsoft Windows, the basic concepts
> all apply to linux.  The basic premise is: don't do automatic updates
> on production servers, don't blindly install every update that comes out,
> and have a plan that you follow for doing updates.  The link is:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bestprac/bpsp.mspx
>
> Another doc that may be of interest as well is:
>
> www.cressida.info/pdfs/whitepapers/bestpractices.pdf

Yea, it's just common sense.  I do all that manually.  I even will do a
major backup of the whole system so I can back out of it.  I just can't
believe anyone would complain.  You guys word at donating time for these
updates, why anyone would complain is beyond me.