How do I enable nightly yum?

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:55:49PM +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> >Why wouldn't you know about it, though? Are we talking about the case where
> >the new update is applied but there is a power failure in the second after
> >that and before the update notice goes out?
> What about the case that the box being updated is the mail server?

Then it probably shouldn't be getting automatic updates, as with most
mission-critical servers. I think I said that already.

> Or it has the default RH setup of sending mail to the user of the system?

Presumably you'd want to change this anyway. 

> We started out, as I recall, talking about automatic updates. To me, 
> this means a cron job. Probably, in the middle of the night when office 
> systems aren't used, when everyone's at home, when download quotas don't 
> apply (or come from a different bucket).
> So, it's not a few seconds but more like a few hours or even days
> (weekend).
> Ample time for the weather to take out the power.

Yeah, but then it's not a problem, since there was time for the machine to
send its message out before the system went down. It's only the "few
seconds" case where I can see a problem there -- and i'm not too worried
about that.

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