On Sunday 07 March 2010 09:54:23 am Les Mikesell and MANY others wrote: > While I typically do have the compilers and kernel headers installed on > general purpose servers where I might want to run VMware server or rebuild > a source rpm, I would not be very comfortable if I did not have a matching > test machine where I could build and test before trying it in production - > and then it would be possible to just copy the binary anyway. and all in all I've had a lot of good advice. So, we will run a separate VM as a development environment with authorized access to about 4 people. I already run updates every day so it seems we should be fairly safe there. Thanks to all who answered. Dave