On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Frank Cox wrote: > To: centos at centos.org > From: Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> > Subject: [CentOS] Completely automatic yum updating on Centos 6 > > I am about to set up a computer with Centos 6 that I'll probably never see > again. I don't want to give out the root password, but I would like to have it > automatically and transparently update itself. > > What is the best way to do this? I have been looking at webpages about yum-cron > and yum-updatesd but nothing directly addresses Centos 6 and it appears that at > least one of those two methods is now obsolete. Hello Frank. What about doing a ssh root login to the box from far away, and then running yum check-update, to see what the consequences of updating the box could do before commiting to the update first? HTH Keith