yum, crontab and logwatch

[Bob Rowlands]

Stephen Walton wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 13:59 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote:
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>>I'm trying to write a crontab entry to run yum update at 0100 and this is as 
>>far as I've got '0 1 * * * /usr/bin/yum update' but I'm unsure if this will 
>>work.
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>Yum comes pre-installed with a way to enable automatic updates:
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>/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 --add yum
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>See /etc/rc.d/init.d/yum and /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron for details.
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I read the details in those 2 files, and it talks about a "nightly 
update". Is there a way to choose when it will update, or does it do it 
at midnight, or what?

Thanks,
 Bob

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