[rhn-users] Re: rhnsd daemon update

[Jesse Becker]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:18:42AM -0500, nathan r. hruby wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Jesse Becker wrote:
> >It should, yes.  I think that it may only apply security updates
> >automatically, and not bugfix updates (as distinguished in RHN).  However, 
> >I am not completely sure abotu this.
> >
> 
> No, it should not.  rhnsd and rhn_check simply do whatever the satellite
> tells them.

Fair enough.  I sit corrected, and thanks for clarifying.

> If the system in question has the "Auto Errata Update" Property set in the
> RHN website (Systems -> your.host.tld -> Details -> Properties) then your
> box will auto update, **because the Satellite will tell it to do so.**

Right, now will this apply all updates (critical and feature/bugfix
releases), or just critical updates?

> >You're probably better off just running up2date from cron anyway. :-/
> 
> Err... Considering that updates have a slight tendency to break things,
> I'd be super careful about doing this on a system without very good and
> reliable backups :)

I'd be just as careful about expecting rhnsd to keep boxes freshly updated,
when it gets stuck and/or dies randomly.  And yes, I do have good and
reliable backups. ;-)

-- 
Jesse Becker
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