yum, crontab and logwatch

[Stephen Walton]

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 13:59 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> 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.

Yum comes pre-installed with a way to enable automatic updates:

/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 --add yum

See /etc/rc.d/init.d/yum and /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron for details.

-- 
Stephen Walton <stephen.walton at csun.edu>
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, CSU Northridge
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