automatic nightly updates
Jim Popovitch
jimpop at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 22 21:12:21 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 15:54 -0500, Jeremy Rosengren wrote:
> RHEL does not do automatic nightly updates by default. If it did,
> you'd have a *lot* of screaming software development companies out
> there who rely on base patch levels on their build systems. I don't
> recall any Linux distribution that I've tried recently having
> automatic updates enabled by default. (Ubuntu, Fedora Core, RHEL)
Hmmm, recent RH ES/WS installs that I have done *do* have rhnsd running
by default. Of course this doesn't work without running rhn_register
first.
> Automatically updating packages without any kind of user initiation or
> review process is a bad idea, imo, *regardless* of how non-invasive
> anybody thinks those updates might be.
Isn't that what RH's Management entitlement is all about? Heck, non-
user initiation is like the holy grail of systems management, right?
-Jim P.
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