Re: yum update

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Gene Poole wrote:
I started using yum to update my systems as-soon-as 'up2date' was no longer
supported.  So, I have friends and people I work with asking me for a 'rule
of thumb', which I don't know.  So, I'm asking the member of this list:

   What is the 'rule of thumb' for re-booting after the completion of the
   'yum -y update' command? How do you know if you should re-boot - if
   there is a kernel update? Should you reboot based upon what key
   components have been updated?  How do you know what's been updated if
   you schedule it to run at 2 AM?  Do you ever have to re-boot?

I don't have a answer to these questions, do you?

No, I run check-update overnight and make a decision based on that, but it would nice if RPMs requiring reboot included /etc.need_reboot, and a script like /bin/reboot_if_needed you could run later.

I always check what's going to upgrade before I do it, I am not a trusting person. I also run the upgrade command with the names of the packages rather than just letting it do anything it wants.

For ease of having multiple machines I keep the RPMs and put them in a local repository, and I *do* just upgrade against that one, because I have tested the contents on at least one machine before distributing them. You can use 'localupgrade' to do this with NFS or even a CD if running a repository is a problem, works equally well.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
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