Hello, I just set up my first Fedora box (slowly migrating from RH 9). I'm curious as to recommended best practices for keeping a well-patched box...

Following instructions at fedora.artoo.net/faq/ I downloaded their suggested yum.conf file, and did this:
yum update

Now I'm guessing (after reading the manpage) that updates all installed packages.

Now, should I just put an entry in root's crontab to "yum update" every night to keep things up to date?

Am I on the right track? Is there a better way?

By the way, I'm using this box to host a few websites and provide email services for some non-paying customers. So nothing mission critical as of yet.

thanks!
Phil

Keywords: "services" and "customers"

It is kind of missiong critical, though.

I would not schedule such a huge task for every nite, but more to like every 5 days or so. Maybe weekly or every other week. If a major security update becomes available, then I would just update that single package that needs it.

Just an opinion.

found the answer from: http://www.muug.mb.ca/fedora-updates.html


To enable automatic updates via yum, you'll need to run the following commands:

chkconfig yum on
service yum start

After that, yum will run nightly via a cron script.


and hecresper, thx for the feedback as well :-)

No, thanks to you.

That's a great site!