[CentOS] running yum update on remote servers

Mon Feb 25 19:00:25 UTC 2013
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> On 02/25/2013 01:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I have read a couple old threads here on updates for servers, and I am
>>> looking for some mechanics to getting the actual updates done.  I don't
>>> want automatic updates; I want to control when and what gets updated.
>> Keep in mind that to _not_ install an update, you have to know more
>> than the RH engineers about the code.  I usually assume they had a
>> good reason for going to the trouble of shipping it and that they
>> would have to have a very, very good reason to ship anything that
>> would break an existing API in an update.  Of course it is always good
>> policy to test the combination of things you run in production on a
>> non-critical box first.
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> I am on it, and I do look at the announcements. Still which rpm is used
> on which server?  What is critical and what is not?

AH! *Now* I get it. There's a security plugin for yum that you can install
(see
<http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/redhat-fedora-centos-linux-yum-installs-security-updates/>),
and you can have that do *just* those.

       mark