On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 21:06, Miles Egan wrote: > I'm considering rolling yum out to several hundred machines and the only > thing holding me back is the load so many simultaneous updates will put > on the web server. > > Would it make any sense to implement a random delay option in yum for > staggered updates or should I just wrap the yum invocation with my own > delay script? read the yum man page I think you'll find yum -R does just that we have a similar problem :) -sv