Runnning YUM via cron

[J.Moore]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 10:38 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote:

> 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

I'm going to have to disagree with your choice of adjectives. My
experience is that about one of every 3 attempts at 'yum update'
requires manual intervention due to a broken mirror that results in an
indefinite "stall" in the update sequence.

V/r,
Jay