Runnning YUM via cron

[Paul Howarth]

J.Moore wrote:
> 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.

If you regularly have problems with mirrors, it's probably worth your 
while configuring a local mirrorlist that work quickly and reliably for 
you. See http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-mirrorlist/ for an example.

In fact it's probably worth doing this even if you don't have trouble 
with mirrors, as at least you can specify ones closer network-wise to 
you, which will be faster.

Paul.