yum, crontab and logwatch

[Sharon Kimble]

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. Can anyone reassure me please, or if not, what is the correct syntax?

I know that I can run it as a 'service' but that means that it runs at the 
same time as logwatch and it then doesn't get recorded in logwatch, so I'm 
hoping that if I run it in advance of logwatch, then logwatch will record
it.

Sharon.
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[Ed Wilts]

On 11/20/2004 07:59 AM, 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. Can anyone reassure me please, or if not, what is the correct syntax?
>  
>  I know that I can run it as a 'service' but that means that it runs at the 
>  same time as logwatch and it then doesn't get recorded in logwatch, so I'm 
>  hoping that if I run it in advance of logwatch, then logwatch will record
>  it. 
Simply take /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron and move it to /usr/local/bin. Edit 
it to remove the if/fi block.  Then your crontab entry would be:

0 1 * * * /usr/local/bin/yum.cron

This is all that would be left of yum.cron:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/yum -R 10 -e 0 -d 0 -y update yum
/usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -y update

	.../Ed

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[Solved]yum, crontab and logwatch

[Sharon Kimble]

Ed Wilts, RHCE wrote:

>  On 11/20/2004 07:59 AM, 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. Can anyone reassure me please, or if not, what is the correct
> > syntax?
> > 
> > I know that I can run it as a 'service' but that means that it runs at
> > the same time as logwatch and it then doesn't get recorded in logwatch,
> > so I'm hoping that if I run it in advance of logwatch, then logwatch will
> > record it.
>  
>  Simply take /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron and move it to /usr/local/bin. Edit
>  it to remove the if/fi block.  Then your crontab entry would be:
>  
>  0 1 * * * /usr/local/bin/yum.cron
>  
>  This is all that would be left of yum.cron:
>  
>  #!/bin/sh
>  /usr/bin/yum -R 10 -e 0 -d 0 -y update yum
>  /usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -y update
>  
>  .../Ed
>   
Thanks Ed, this worked pefectly :)

Sharon.
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[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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[Bob Rowlands]

Stephen Walton wrote:

> 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.
>
>   
>  
I read the details in those 2 files, and it talks about a "nightly 
update". Is there a way to choose when it will update, or does it do it 
at midnight, or what?

Thanks,
 Bob

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[Mike Klinke]

On Saturday 04 December 2004 09:05, Bob Rowlands wrote:
 
>  >See /etc/rc.d/init.d/yum and /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron for
>  > details.
>
>  I read the details in those 2 files, and it talks about a
>  "nightly update". Is there a way to choose when it will update,
>  or does it do it at midnight, or what?
>  
 
The scripts in /etc/cron.daily will run according to the times 
specified in the table found in /etc/crontab.

Regards, Mike Klinke

[Bob Rowlands]

Mike Klinke wrote:

> On Saturday 04 December 2004 09:05, Bob Rowlands wrote:
>  
>   
>
> >>See /etc/rc.d/init.d/yum and /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron for
> >>details.
> >>      
> >>
> >I read the details in those 2 files, and it talks about a
> >"nightly update". Is there a way to choose when it will update,
> >or does it do it at midnight, or what?
> >
> >    
> >
>  
> The scripts in /etc/cron.daily will run according to the times 
> specified in the table found in /etc/crontab.
>
> Regards, Mike Klinke
>
>   
>  
Just what I needed. Thank you.

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