On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01/17/2012 10:30 AM, P J wrote:
> > I've read that it's not recommended to automatically apply updates via
> > yum-updated on production servers, but I keep encountering servers that
> > have this enabled.
> >
> > Are any of you doing automatic yum updates on production servers in
> CentOS
> > 5 via yum-updatesd? Have you experienced any negative side effects?
> >
> > The only thing I can think of is if say a client had a custom version of
> > PHP installed that was not properly excluded in yum and then it was over
> > written.
> > Unless I'm missing something else that could go horribly wrong.
> >
> > Any feedback is appreciated. (if this question has already been asked my
> > apologies, searching the archive didn't find what I was looking for)
> >
>
> I would always say it is "best practice" to manually install updates on
> at least one machine of a specific type and make sure everything is OK
> ... then automatically machines that are like that one after you are happy.
>
> We do automatically upgrade all the CentOS infrastructure servers all
> the time ... but I do not do that for my $work servers.
>
> There are hardly ever any issues ... but I always test and then push.
>
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Thanks for the feedback guys, I agree about best practices but it's nice to
get direct feedback from your peers.
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