Re: [CentOS] yum update

Geoff Galitz wrote:

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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?

I've worked on projects where backend configuration files changed in syntax or architecture between releases, which were released as updates... so I know for a fact updates can break a running system.

On CentOS? Fedora does that all the time but _not_ having behavior-changing updates in the long life of a major release is most of the point of 'enterprise' distributions. It's probably not perfect - and I wouldn't do auto-updates on production servers either but it should at least be very unusual for a CentOS update to break anything.