On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley at pcraft.com> wrote: > > Jim Perrin 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. mhr