[CentOS] CentOS 7 Repeating Update Messages

Kirk Bocek t004 at kbocek.com
Thu Jun 11 16:14:21 UTC 2015



On 6/11/2015 12:16 AM, Harold Toms wrote:
> 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
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> 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".
>

Right you are. Thanks. That was not the default in yum-cron on CentOS 6. 
So much new in 7.



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