On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 15:54 -0500, Jeremy Rosengren wrote: > RHEL does not do automatic nightly updates by default. If it did, > you'd have a *lot* of screaming software development companies out > there who rely on base patch levels on their build systems. I don't > recall any Linux distribution that I've tried recently having > automatic updates enabled by default. (Ubuntu, Fedora Core, RHEL) Hmmm, recent RH ES/WS installs that I have done *do* have rhnsd running by default. Of course this doesn't work without running rhn_register first. > Automatically updating packages without any kind of user initiation or > review process is a bad idea, imo, *regardless* of how non-invasive > anybody thinks those updates might be. Isn't that what RH's Management entitlement is all about? Heck, non- user initiation is like the holy grail of systems management, right? -Jim P. -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
