Automatic update?

clpl1980 · 12-25-2006, 08:42 AM

Hi!

I have Fedora Core 5 running.

How can I check if automatic updates are on?

Or... is there a way to tell the system to automatically update certain packages?

Thank you
bye!

macemoneta · 12-25-2006, 10:23 AM

Take a look at /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf - the setting are very clear. Once you make any necessary changes, restart the maintenance daemon:

service yum-updatesd restart

clpl1980 · 12-26-2006, 05:06 AM

Ok, and do you think it could work if I put this script in cron.weekly?

yum update ssh -y
yum update httpd -y
yum update clamav -y
yum update postfix -y
yum update amavisd -y
yum update squirrelmail -y

Is this done right? Is it dangerous to update this weekly without supervision?
How can I make the script tell me if something went wrong?

Thank you

macemoneta · 12-26-2006, 11:20 AM

I have 8 machines, x86, x86_64, ppc architectures. I run nightly:

yum -y update

No problems since 2001. A given night's update may not succeed, because of a partially updated repository. It usually corrects itself in a day or two. Why would you want to run your system with hundreds of known bugs?