On 12/14/2011 10:55 AM, John Hodrien wrote: > 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 I've used the scripts at this URL with satisfying results: http://wiki.centos.org/YumCheckOrInstallUpdates -- Corey Henderson http://cormander.com/