Using yum to update production servers

[STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT)]

> > 
> > But I do have a few servers that run as postgresql and 
> mysql databases will yum wipe my database if it decides or 
> see an update for
> > 
> > mysql or postgres
> 
I believe with the syntax

exclude=mysql* postgres*

in the /etc/yum.conf file, you can tell
yum not to update these packages.  There
may be a better way to do this.

Bob Styma