up2date: how does it get run?

[Florez, Nestor]

Reid,

Generally you set it to run automatically from your Red Hat
account once you log in.

Néstor :-)


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Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 10:15 AM
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Subject: up2date: how does it get run?



Hi All -

I've been getting notices from RHN that one of my servers is failing to 
check in (and pull down updates).  When I log in to the server and run 
up2date -u, it runs just dandy and updates the system entry on RHN with 
the time it was run.

Looking at /var/log/up2date, it's pretty clear that up2date isn't 
getting run automatically.  I don't know how it's 'supposed' to be 
called though.  I've monkeyed around with the system enough that maybe I 
deleted a script that I shouldn't have?

I don't see anything looking like an up2date call in any of my cron 
directories nor in crontab itself.  Does anyone know how it's supposed 
to get run?

Thanks,
Reid