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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080305/89e57f08/attachment-0005.sig>