[CentOS] Request on Cent OS insight

John R Pierce pierce at hogranch.com
Sat Dec 22 19:48:13 UTC 2007


stephen goldman wrote:
>  
> Hello List,
>      I am getting familar with CentOS and using Rel 4.6. My goal is to 
> get a automated update *(email)* of system updates.
> I found the link below in the WIKI. Additionally I have enable "yum" 
> to run as a service int 345 and started it.
> yum update from the command line works fine-
>  
>     There are three scripts indicated on the web link below :
>  
> http://wiki.centos.org/YumCheckOrInstallUpdates
> ...
>  
> ** 
> /_I am not sure what to do with the information provided. Can others 
> point me in a direction please_/..
>  


the wiki page is suggesting you CREATE those three scripts.

any script in /etc/cron.daily gets run once  a day.  that yum.cron 
script reads the values in /etc/sysconfig/yum-check and either does the 
updates, or runs the /usr/bin/yum-check script as instructed.





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