[CentOS] yum update

[Lanny Marcus]

On 8/13/09, madunix <madunix at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can any one clarify this, is auto updating at all production servers
> recommended or not?
> need to know your opinion, how do you manage the update?

The NSA Guide to the Secure Configuration of RHEL 5 indicates this is
OK, but not with updatesd which they believe is not mature enough for
an enterprise environment and may introduce unnecessary overhead. They
suggest a cron job that calls yum to do this.

Lanny
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