On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Charles R. Anderson wrote:
Should the yum service default to on or off? Should the yum.conf exclude kernels by default?
I think auto updates should be off by default, and kernels should be excluded by default, just as it is in up2date.
What are people's opinions on this?
What I do is leave the service on and change the cron job to do a yum list to inform people of updates so they are aware of them being there. I also leave a exclude line for kernels commented out in the yum.conf that I ship for campus.
Yes, seth will say this doesn't scale and he's right, luckily I don't get root's mail for all of the linux boxes on campus :)
-n