on 3-5-2008 11:20 AM Les Mikesell spake the following:
MHR wrote:
If you've been running yum update, you're already at 5.1. You may just need to reboot to load the new kernel.
Nope, I don't run yum. I do manual updates. So I've rsynced the updates to a local drives, and then ran rpm against them. There's something about running un-attended updates on a life system. I've had too many cases where I come into the office in the morning and the system is dead because of some update overnight.
Fascinating - I've always had to run yum manually, and I've never seen an overnight update on my system.
Are you sure you don't have rogue administrators sneaking in at night and 'yup'ing?
(Okay, that wasn't a serious suggestion, but your issue seems kind of strange...)
Just my $0.02.
Yes, aside from being able to run yum manually while still letting it do all the work, when has anyone seen a Centos system die from an update? I know it's theoretically possible and I baby-sit the critical systems too (at least the first on each hardware type), but this stuff is pretty well tested before being pushed out.
While I haven't seen an entire system go down from an update, I have seen software stop working due to a perl module update. But to be fair, that also involved a third-party repo.