Topic: notification frequency yum

[harkete]

Hi,

is it possible to change the notification frequency for new "updates" for the server to something else than every day? Every week would be prefect.

Also, is it generally 100% safe to install whatever updates are suggested? As I'm located far far away from the server, having to manually fix it, is both cumbersome, expensiv and time-consuming ... Can one always trust it to restart gracefully after updating it?

Tia
/Erik

[jonic]

Regarding the first question, there is a post in the forums by william_syd suggesting to move 0check4updates out of /etc/cron.daily and into /etc/cron.weekly, but as he says it's not the SME way of doing things.

Regarding the second you can't know until you try it. A safe way would be to not apply the updates immediately, and look around in the forums and bugzilla and see if anybody reports a problem. Also you could setup a test server, and do the updates on it first. However even then it may not restart gracefully, for example I had a server that after restart required me to do a manual file system check to repair problems (that were caused not by the update itself, and were revealed by checks done at restart).
    Anyway you won't encounter problems very often, as SME is really a great piece of software, maintained by a dedicated team.

[william_syd]

Regarding the first question, there is a post in the forums by william_syd suggesting to move 0check4updates out of /etc/cron.daily and into /etc/cron.weekly, but as he says it's not the SME way of doing things.

I don't think this part is templated so go for it unless someone else can say why not.

[bpivk]

Also, is it generally 100% safe to install whatever updates are suggested?

Unless you install testing repos. But it also depends on many other things (contribs, old hardware that isn't supported by new kernel,...).

The safest way would be to just wait a little and check the bugtracker for new bugs. But as jonic said you won't encounter problems very often.
They are quite rare (i never had one).

[Tib]

Also, is it generally 100% safe to install whatever updates are suggested?

I have had no problems updating for years ... till just last week.

A client of mine had a network card that worked with 7.1 but stopped working with 7.1.2.

The fix was easy ... just put in a new network card ... lucky the update was done after hrs.

I always tell clients .... VERY IMPORTANT ... never update through the week on a production server .... always update after hrs or weekends just incase of problems.

Even if you have a test server sometimes you don't always find all problems.


Regards,

Tib