On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:11 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently- > widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking, basically > - but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very insecure. > > It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to > keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install > security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications > perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough. > > Maybe this could be done with a script run under cron.daily, so that anacron > picks it up? > > I'd be glad of any advice. > > Anne --- That's just the thing you don't have to do anything. Yumupdatesd will handle that for you. Or stop the service and put on a cronjob. Just that easy. JohnStanley