On 03/11/2016 12:41 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
Hi list, I know that there are automatic update with yum-cron but never tried. In my experiences I never did automatic backup because if update was broken my installation will be broken and I wait some time before apply update. Today seems to be that automatic update are used more than before. What do you think about automatic update? It is a good practice on a server? What is your experiences?
Thanks in advance.
Alessandro
We run an automatic yum update nightly on most of the centos infrastructure servers.
When I managed IT for an engineering firm, for the production machines I would never automate updates though.
I would have a test environment and run my own local mirror and only put things onto the local mirror that passed through my test system and worked.