CentOS 5 Question - Updating System

Sertac CELiK · Unread post by **Sertac CELiK** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:03 pm

Hi,

I'll start to update my box every day by cron task. I'll use "yum upgrade" command. And I wonder that if i have to exclude some packages from upgrade process like perl, apache or something else?

How do you upgrade your box running plesk on it?

Thanks.

Unread post by **scott** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 7:51 am

I don't exclude any packages on my systems.

Depending on your distro, you might have the yum-cron package available. If its available for your OS it might save you some extra steps.

Sertac CELiK · Unread post by **Sertac CELiK** » Tue May 06, 2008 7:23 pm

Thanks scott, but i wonder is http://kb.parallels.com/en/234 necessary or not.. Any suggestion?

breun · Unread post by **breun** » Wed May 07, 2008 5:56 am

It's not really necessary to exclude sendmail, bind-chroot and caching-nameserver as they should not be installed, but it doesn't hurt either. If you don't trust yourself to not install them, then you could add them to your excludes.

If definitely advice against excluding kernel*. Kernel updates also fix security issues, so you better keep up with those. I do suggest being careful with rebooting into new kernels if you don't have a serial console or some other means to access your server besides SSH. In that case you probably want to follow the procedure outlined at http://www.atomicorp.com/wiki/index.php ... stallation to use grub to boot into your kernel only once and only set the new kernel as the default after you've succesfully booted into it.

Sertac CELiK · Unread post by **Sertac CELiK** » Wed May 07, 2008 1:21 pm

scott & breun thanks a lot, i've updated my box without any problems. Now on i'll set up a daily cron