Runnning YUM via cron

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 1/11/06, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 11:34 +0100, Arne Drechsler wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > is it a good idea to have yum run automatically every night ? Since it
> > also updates things like sql server and this sometimes causes trouble
> > I'm wondering wether it is a good idea. Anybody has good/bad experience
> > with it ? Are there solutions to have yum run savely and not touch any
> > running things or rewrite configs ?
> My experience is: No, this isn't a good idea. Neither yum, nor the
> repos, nor the rpm are in a shape to leave yum running unattended.
>
> /me ducks and waits for flames ;)

Not going to flame, but I am going to disagree.  The vast vast vast
majority of people (including myself) have no issues running the Yum
update service.

# chkconfig yum on
# service yum start

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Chris

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