[olug] Anyone defragging their linux servers?

[Kenton Brede]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Ryan Stille <ryan at cfwebtools.com> wrote:
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> I don't do updates very often either, I'm afraid of breaking something.
> How do you guys handle this?    I could run 'yum update' on the dev
> server, and just let everything update, and then see if the basics are
> still working ok.  But it may be easy to miss something.  Usually I just
> update apache/php/mysql and leave the rest alone.  Do you trust it
> enough to just do a full yum update every night from cron?

In addition to what others have said I'll mention the "yum-security"
plugin, which you might find useful.  I know RHEL5 has it,  I'm not
sure about CentOS.  The plugin allows you to do a "yum --security
update", installing just the security updates, excluding bug and
enhancement updates.
Kent