RH up2date kernel upgrade?

[bfcx]

I have a webserver up with redhat, I admin'd a redhat server 4 years ago (rh 6 maybe?) so i did all the upgrades myself. But this up2date think looks nice.

My question is how well does it do kernel updates? I've never compiled a kernel (other admins always did it) and up2date says i should update to kernel-2.4.20-28.9 .

What are your experiances with up2date and kernel updating?

[krohnjw]

I did it once, well not me, a coworker did on accident, and nothing broke. So take that as you may I didn't like the idea a whole lot but it seemed to work fine.

[Epyon9283]

When I had Redhat I didn't have any problems upgrading the kernel through up2date.

[Dbest]

The same goes here I was a Red Hat user until version 9 and never had problems updating the kernel using up2date.

[Scott Tiger]

I never had a problems with it either and I've upgraded my kernel with up2date more times than I care to admit.

[Dbest]

bfcx, will you continue with the 2.4 series or move to 2.6? I'm asking this because I think that the only way to move to 2.6 is by compiling the kernel yourself, I may be wrong but I don't think that up2date lets you upgrade to 2.6.

[pbharris]

hello,
kernel upgrading with up2date has worked quite well for me

[bfcx]

i'm planing on sticking with 2.4, no reason to goto 2.6 yet, I'll try the upgrade, can always reload the server hehe, only have 1 site on it right now so it wont be too bad.