[CentOS] CentOS 6, yum-updatesd

[John Hodrien]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

> And I worked on Spacewalk in early '09. AAARRRRGHGHGHGHHGHGHHHH!!!! It
> went from .3 to .4 while I was trying to implement it, and I think it hit
> .5 as I left that contract. It was a nightmare to install and configure; I
> had to tune the free Oracle version to use almost all available memory (it
> had a max of 1G for the free version), and on, and on.

It wasn't *that* bad...  It is however overkill for a lot of situations.

> Sounds as though I might want to roll out something like
> 5 1 * * * yum -y update

Probably want something that spots a hung yum and kills it, as it /can/ get
itself into a pickle and not complete.

jh