reboot after updates (dbus & hal)??? what is this windows???

[oldman]

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Steve Searle wrote:
> Around 01:37pm on Saturday, December 02, 2006 (UK time), oldman scrawled:
> 
>> I guess this is the price we pay to make linux more grandma friendly,
>> but maybe items like this could be dependent upon some switch somewhere
>> (an "Expert" switch? or an "Easy" button)
> 
> Am I correct in thinking that if I disable the yum_updatesd service, and
> set a regular cron job to do a "yum update", things can be returned to a
> situation where updates are carried out without user intervention, e.g.
> on servers where the X window system isn't installed.  (I know that this
> won't reboot after kernel updates, etc.)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
That should work, but if you are saying that your system reboots
automatically using auto install on yum-updatesd I think you should
bugzilla it.  It's one thing to reboot while an operator is there to
stop it, quite another to reboot in the middle of the night.


Scott
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