On 10/06/15 17:07, Kirk Bocek wrote: > I've install yum-cron on a new CentOS 7 host and after a recent update > I am now getting daily repeating emails about that update instead of > the single notification I was expecting. Does anyone know what's going > on? > > Kirk > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos By default, yum-cron just downloads updates but does not install them, so the e-mail you receive shows a list of updates waiting to be applied. If you want it to do that you must change "apply_updates" in /etc/yum/yum-cron.conf from "no" to "yes". -- regards Harold Toms http://iodine.chem.qmul.ac.uk "Priestley's works... tended to unsettle every thing, and yet settled nothing." - Samuel Johnson.