On 8/13/09, madunix <madunix at gmail.com> wrote: > Can any one clarify this, is auto updating at all production servers > recommended or not? > need to know your opinion, how do you manage the update? The NSA Guide to the Secure Configuration of RHEL 5 indicates this is OK, but not with updatesd which they believe is not mature enough for an enterprise environment and may introduce unnecessary overhead. They suggest a cron job that calls yum to do this. Lanny http://lowcostmagazines.com