-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steve Searle wrote: > Around 01:37pm on Saturday, December 02, 2006 (UK time), oldman scrawled: > >> I guess this is the price we pay to make linux more grandma friendly, >> but maybe items like this could be dependent upon some switch somewhere >> (an "Expert" switch? or an "Easy" button) > > Am I correct in thinking that if I disable the yum_updatesd service, and > set a regular cron job to do a "yum update", things can be returned to a > situation where updates are carried out without user intervention, e.g. > on servers where the X window system isn't installed. (I know that this > won't reboot after kernel updates, etc.) > > Cheers > > Steve > > That should work, but if you are saying that your system reboots automatically using auto install on yum-updatesd I think you should bugzilla it. It's one thing to reboot while an operator is there to stop it, quite another to reboot in the middle of the night. Scott -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFcZHY5mBKdb7VQEcRAtjCAKCl59Q7kewPBapTP+/KtJLVAiF1rACfTaJi akJal/5W0ode94+cqhT7dZs= =+CzD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
