I must be blind or going crazy. I was positive that there was supposed to be a function of RHN to schedule update events!

I know there is some simple solution that I am overlooking but I just cannot find any information regarding the scheduling of updates on RHEL 5.5.

There are updates waiting to happen and I want to schedule them to run later on tonight. Is it as simple as setting a cron job to run the yum command to update? I was sure that there was some other functionality through RHN for queuing specific updates, filtering updates etc

Please help!! I'm totally at a loss and for once google is not my friend!

Yes, you can add a cron job (as root) to run "yum update", it will work. I did it for my CentOS servers (I don't pay for RedHat, I am a RHCE myself, so it would end up paying other for my own services).

If your going to charge yourself, charge yourself double, i'm sure it will work out well for you ha ha

The reason I wanted a more granular control though is that there is a kernel update etc waiting to be updated and a few actually require a restart. I want to schedule all the normal security updates to be done automatically on a Friday afternoon and bypass things like kernel updates etc

I was under the impression that this is what the RHN website allowed but I cannot find anything like it there.

Here's a useful link http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_boo...rhnetwork.html

If you want to exclude any kernel update,
simply add a line to /etc/yum.conf :

exclude=kernel*
.. will exclude all packages, starting with "kernel".

exclude=k*
→ All packages starting with "k".
The wildcard ( * ) is always to be used.
..

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