default yum configuration for Legacy

[nathan r. hruby]

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
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