If you don't want your system to break unexpectedly, do not enable automatic updates; especially if you are running any packages with non-standard configurations. In some cases, with bare packages and stock configurations, automatic updates may prove to be a viable and SEMI-safe solution. But, if you wish to maintain the integrity of a production system, I would suggest that you do not use them. Josh -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of email builder Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 2:36 PM To: centos at centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Auto-updates -- Bad Idea? Hello, As I've learned recently, I do not have any auto updates configured on my system. I see some posts on the web encouraging the use of "yum-cron", but I'd like to know what people feel about the use of automatic updates. That is, for a server (non-desktop) system, automatic updates could break things or have other unforeseen consequences, and that could happen at the worst of times, since the process runs regularly. On the other hand, for small businesses without highly trained sysadmins or ones with enough time to baby their servers, missing critical updates to, say openssl or some other mission-critical package could spell disaster. Is the only reasonable solution to schedule a "human cron" once a week to look at needed updates? Ouch. Thanks in advance for your considered opinions. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos