On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 11:34 +0100, Arne Drechsler wrote: > Hi everybody, > > is it a good idea to have yum run automatically every night ? Since it > also updates things like sql server and this sometimes causes trouble > I'm wondering wether it is a good idea. Anybody has good/bad experience > with it ? Are there solutions to have yum run savely and not touch any > running things or rewrite configs ? My experience is: No, this isn't a good idea. Neither yum, nor the repos, nor the rpm are in a shape to leave yum running unattended. /me ducks and waits for flames ;) Ralf