How do I enable nightly yum?

[Timothy Murphy]

Markku Kolkka wrote:

>> What does it actually mean for yum to be "on"?
>>
>> I would have thought a daily (or rather nightly) cron job
>> running "yum -y update" would be what most people would want,
> 
> That's exactly what you get when the yum pseudo-service is on.
> It sets a flag that is checked by the yum.cron script
> in /etc/cron.daily

OK, thanks.
I saw the flag in the yum.cron script,
but didn't realise its purpose.

Isn't this a slightly odd way to do things?
I always assumed that chkconfig is just for starting daemons.
 

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