Using yum to update production servers

[James Wilkinson]

Mike McGrath wrote:
> On a side note really you shouldn't have yum auto update stuff on your
> production servers, its not good practice.  Not to mention that some
> updates, (like kernel updates for example) won't take effect until a
> reboot.  Just my two cents.

Depends.

Really important production servers should have sysadmins monitoring
them daily, and carefully choosing which updates to apply.

If they won't get the regular sysadmin time (say it's a small business
server behind a dial-up connection, and they don't want to pay for
full or part-time administrative support, or the server isn't that
important), then automatic updates, especially of security updates, are
a *lot* better than those updates not being installed at all.

It's a "IT theory vs business reality" thing.

James.

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