Timothy Murphy wrote:
Anthony J Placilla wrote:
chkconfig yum on
will set the appropriate rc scripts to enable yum to start at boot
to actually turn it on you will need to do
service yum start
one time after you chkconfig'ed it on
What does it actually mean for yum to be "on"?
chkconfig only creates or destroys the links between the /etc/rc.d/rcX.d
directories and the actual scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d. "off" destroys
the link (if it existed), and "on" creates the link, but that's all.
The service won't start until the next reboot (when the /etc/rc.d/rcX.d
stuff is processed). "service yum start" starts it immediately (the
same as doing "/etc/rc.d/init.d/yum start").
I would have thought a daily (or rather nightly) cron job
running "yum -y update" would be what most people would want,
at least on a desktop.
Yes, that's one way. Don't forget to do "yum -y update >/dev/null 2>&1"
unless you want mail sent to root everytime it runs.
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