On Thursday, December 09, 2010 11:08 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:06:34 pm Warren Young wrote: >> That's great if you are wise enough to forsee all problems that an >> automatic update can cause. > >> I am not that wise. > > Nor am I; that's why I have testing server VM's on which to stage updates. Even on the production servers, thanks to them being VMware guests I can pull a snapshot prior to doing the updates, and if the update breaks things badly enough I can roll back the snapshot from VMware and triage the problem. Updates should never be blind, IMHO, especially for production servers. > > That's also why I keep regular backups of my laptop; in that case I'm tracking Fedora (although I'm seriously considering purchasing RHEL Workstation), and even then I have a test desktop to see if anything major breaks. While the test desktop is not identically configured, it is close enough to be a valid test case, all the way down to the nVidia graphics. Yup, that's why I was basically staging for HQ so that they can implement SELinux on all the other school servers.