[CentOS] tinydns/djbdns opinion poll

Thu Feb 12 04:01:21 UTC 2009
Ian Forde <ian at duckland.org>

On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 17:34 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote:
> With one very large caveat.
> 
> Be aware that updating bind via yum can result in your existing bind
> configuration files being renamed to something.rmpsave and your name
> server left in a dysfunctional state. I suggest that you consider
> excluding bind from normal updates and only update it when you are
> ready and able to check for possible configuration issues.

That's true of pretty much every rpm that has config files... it's part
of my standard updating routine:

yum update
updatedb
locate rpmsave
locate rpmnew
fix any config files...
restart services and/or reboot if necessary...

	-I