On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:27:45 -0400, Toby Bluhm wrote: > Is there a reason why you don't want your machine updated? On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:07, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > Yes indeed! [...] On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 14:42, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote: > He didn't say he wasn't going to update, Yes, he did! :-) > he just said he wants to do it on his > schedule. Nothing wrong with that. As a matter of fact, it is more proper to > update when you have tested on an enterprise system. Agreed, in particular with updates that bump a release (5.1 -> 5.2), I also do it manually and not automatically. However, nowadays I consider updating the system and applying security patches an essential part of the sysadmin role in a Linux environment. Filipe