On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:55:49PM +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > >Why wouldn't you know about it, though? Are we talking about the case where > >the new update is applied but there is a power failure in the second after > >that and before the update notice goes out? > What about the case that the box being updated is the mail server? Then it probably shouldn't be getting automatic updates, as with most mission-critical servers. I think I said that already. > Or it has the default RH setup of sending mail to the user of the system? Presumably you'd want to change this anyway. > We started out, as I recall, talking about automatic updates. To me, > this means a cron job. Probably, in the middle of the night when office > systems aren't used, when everyone's at home, when download quotas don't > apply (or come from a different bucket). > So, it's not a few seconds but more like a few hours or even days > (weekend). > Ample time for the weather to take out the power. Yeah, but then it's not a problem, since there was time for the machine to send its message out before the system went down. It's only the "few seconds" case where I can see a problem there -- and i'm not too worried about that. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 73 degrees Fahrenheit.
