On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Sam Drinkard wrote:
> My server has not yet been updated with all the goodies and
> is still a stock 4.2 installation. What is the consensus
> about remote updating? Would it be better if I were to
> physically be there and do it or are things stable enough
> that I could do it remotely and then reboot. It's kind of a
> PITA to have to go downtown to the C0-LO site, but can be
> done.
Nothing beats a local staging server with 'unusual' hardware
to test on. That said, the Centos build team roll security
updates at once, and test non-security updates before release
(successfully dodging the current NFS issues with PNAELV 4, U
3 carry), come to mind.
If the server is slimmed down, hardened systematically, and
fairly mainline hardware, I consider it safe enough to update
on the fly. The COLUG server is updated that way
- Russ Herrold
