Hello,

we have enabled yum-updatesd on our dozen real and virtual machines running CentOS 5.2 some time ago and are very satisfied:

afarber@ablsw01:~> grep -v ^# /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf [main] run_interval = 7200 updaterefresh = 1200

emit_via = email dbus_listener = no

do_update = yes do_download = yes do_download_deps = yes

(it would be good to make it use the proxy though...)

My plan is to keep the update mails and if anything goes wrong, install the older packages. But until now I never needed to do that :-)

However we have few machines running CentOS 4.7 which we can't upgrade to 5 (because of Oracle 9 etc.)

Is there some similar service available?

Or has anybody experience in putting "yum -y update" into crontab for CentOS 4? Any good advices?

Thank you Alex