[CentOS] Centos and automatic update on server

[Johnny Hughes]

On 03/11/2016 12:41 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
> Hi list, I know that there are automatic update with yum-cron but never
> tried.
> In my experiences I never did automatic backup because if update was broken
> my installation will be broken and I wait some time before apply update.
> Today seems to be that automatic update are used more than before.
> What do you think about automatic update? It is a good practice on a
> server? What is your experiences?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Alessandro

We run an automatic yum update nightly on most of the centos
infrastructure servers.

When I managed IT for an engineering firm, for the production machines I
would never automate updates though.

I would have a test environment and run my own local mirror and only put
things onto the local mirror that passed through my test system and worked.

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