Runnning YUM via cron

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 10:38, Christofer C. Bell wrote:

> > > 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

Another way to look at it is that if you are very concerned about
the kinds of things that might break in an update then fedora
might not be the right distribution for your use in the first place.
Centos, for example, tends to have fewer and less drastic
changes in updates.
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  Les Mikesell
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