[CentOS] CentOS 6, yum-updatesd

[Corey Henderson]

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

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Corey Henderson
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