[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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