A few more brief questions

[Tweek]

Ok, this linux rookie is on a roll. I finally got my FC2/Plesk 7.5.4 server updated to mySQL 4.1 and PHP 4.4.2 thanks to all the information here and some trial and error. Also was able to update via ASL (Great service - Thanks)

My final questions (for now that is) are if I go ahead and run yum update to catch all the updates in the atomic repo, what conflicts may I run into with Plesk? I have read some posts about conflicts with spamassasin and Dr. Web. Would it be advisable to exclude those when running yum update? And just what should I put in the yum.conf to exclude items?

Thanks once again.


Steve

[breun]

I have read some posts about conflicts with spamassasin and Dr. Web. Would it be advisable to exclude those when running yum update? And just what should I put in the yum.conf to exclude items?

I hear nothing but bad news about drweb. I don't even allow it _near_ my servers. My advice is to uninstall it and use something else (you might want to look into using ART's qmail-scanner with spamassassin and clamd). If you don't have drweb installed you don't need to exclude it in your yum config either.

Anyway, to exclude packages just add line like this to the yum config section for the repository you want to exclude from:

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exclude=<package1> [<package2> ...]

Just a space-separated list.