On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 13:40 -0600, Jonathan Carpenter wrote: > I have a few servers running Fedora 4 core, And I would like to keep > them update using yum. This way I will have the security updates and > such. I have been using the command from the fedora.redhat.com > website > su -c '/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 yum on; /sbin/service yum start' > > > But I do have a few servers that run as postgresql and mysql databases will yum wipe my database if it decides or see an update for > > mysql or postgres I have never experienced that problem. I only update production machines during scheduled maintenance periods though, where the database is taken offline, a dump is made, then it updated. If there is a problem, it can be restored from the dump. Never been a problem for me though - but taking a dump of the database first is generally a good idea.
