epdates

[barrct]

Because of my arch. I do have to run a few masked things, but even those I haven't had a single problem with.

Same here with the updates, but I don't script a thing at all. Every once in a while I'll just check who's got a new version out there with 'emerge -uDp world'. And then even after that I only emerge a single package at a time, and still -p it to make sure I know what I'm getting.

I have actually had a problem in the past where I updated ssh and the default protocol turned into v2.0 and it killed my ssh logins. Another time I updated ... well I actually can't think of what it was, but after it when in I had a few funky things happening with other packages so I had to go ahead and update those as well.

There are a few things that I am extremely weary about updating, namely Apache2 and Tomcat5 since it wasn't exactly a quick setup between the two of them and I need that for my software to run. and there are a few things that I don't have a problem with so I'm going to update anyway like apcupsd so that I can monitor my APC backup and log power and temp. It's masked, but runs perfect so it's kinda a if it ain't broken, don't muck with it idea.

The largest problem that I have is keeping all the raids running in my less than ideal environment.