non-root up2date question

[Paul Howarth]

Don Russell wrote:
> 
> 
> Richard E Miles wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:57:39 -0500
>> Bill Case <billlinux at rogers.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> How do you set up up2date so that you can update as a user without
>>> continually having to use the root password?
>>>
>>> I think I remember reading a few months ago how to do it; but now I
>>> can't find the instructions.
> 
> 
> Maybe by scheduling a yum -y update command on root?
> 
> I don't know if that's a good idea.... but I guess it would work

Indeed it would. Check out /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron

This is enabled using:

# chkconfig yum on
# service yum start

Paul.