Re: yum, crontab and logwatch

[Stephen Walton]

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 13:59 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>  I'm trying to write a crontab entry to run yum update at 0100 and
> this is as 
>  far as I've got '0 1 * * * /usr/bin/yum update' but I'm unsure if this
> will 
>  work. 
Yum comes pre-installed with a way to enable automatic updates:

/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 --add yum

See /etc/rc.d/init.d/yum and /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron for details.

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Stephen Walton <stephen.walton(a)csun.edu&gt;
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, CSU Northridge