On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 07:16:51PM -0800, Benjamin Smith enlightened us:
I hope you dont do sysadmin as a profession. if you do - I fear for the people you run servers for. :)
You provide only a vague reference to god-knows-what form of impending doom, so perhaps you aren't aware of what `yes "n" | yum update` actually does? Do you need to read it a bit closer?
Perhaps you have a better way to find out what packages are reported by yum as ready for update that you might want to test first?
yum check-update