On 6/9/2013 1:14 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Do i need to update it to the > latest version need? no. should? probably. > and is it recommended to use yum update command to update to > 6.5 on a production environment without testing. if 'production' means what it does in my $job's enterprise environment, absolutely not. we do nothing to a production environment without testing first in a staging environment that replicates production. updated of complicated production systems is tricky. that said, things like development servers, hobby internet webservers running a few blogs and stuff, things like that, I regularly do yum update's on, but I also have backups if its at all important, so I can revert to last night if there's a problem. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast