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Old 03-01-2005, 03:14 PM   #1
dbruso
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using cron to run yum - fc3


I have a real newbie question. I want to use cron to fire off yum on a scheduled basis and update my FC 3 installation. I created the crontab below for root:

00 3 * * 5 /etc/yum -y update

What I expected would happen is that yum would be launched every Friday at 3 am and update my installation without user input (-y). When I look in /var/log/cron, I see that cron has run my command.

root@saruman log]# cat cron.1 |grep yum
Feb 25 03:00:01 saruman crond[18559]: (root) CMD (/etc/yum -y update)

However, when I look in yum.log I do not see where yum updated my system.

Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks.
 
Old 03-02-2005, 12:15 PM   #2
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A silly question, but do you know that there were any updates for your installed rpms? The log won't list anything if there was nothing to be done.

Oh, as an aside, you might want to consider using "upgrade" instead of "update." That shoul catch new releases as well as new updates for you.
 
Old 03-02-2005, 12:20 PM   #3
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Yum in cron

On my system (RH9 right now) yum is "/usr/bin/yum", not "/etc/yum".
 
Old 03-02-2005, 12:43 PM   #4
dbruso
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Doh!

The executable for yum is indeed in /usr/bin. I'm confusing the conf files that I store in /etc with the program that uses them.

Told you I was a newbie.

Thanks for the help.
 
  


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