Re: automatic nightly updates

[Jim Popovitch <jimpop yahoo com>]

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 15:54 -0500, Jeremy Rosengren wrote:
> RHEL does not do automatic nightly updates by default.  If it did,
> you'd have a *lot* of screaming software development companies out
> there who rely on base patch levels on their build systems.  I don't
> recall any Linux distribution that I've tried recently having
> automatic updates enabled by default.  (Ubuntu, Fedora Core, RHEL)

Hmmm, recent RH ES/WS installs that I have done *do* have rhnsd running
by default.  Of course this doesn't work without running rhn_register
first. 

> Automatically updating packages without any kind of user initiation or
> review process is a bad idea, imo, *regardless* of how non-invasive
> anybody thinks those updates might be.

Isn't that what RH's Management entitlement is all about?  Heck, non-
user initiation is like the holy grail of systems management, right?

-Jim P.