On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 05:19:56PM +0200, Ian Hilliard wrote:
> > From: <jix@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I just need to know if yum can update automatically allwithout manual
> > intervention.
> >
> > I would to have a cron job with a "yum update" like, who said "yes" when
> > yum ask "Is this ok [y/N]:"
> >
> > Thx for your response and really sorry for my poor english
> >
> > jix
>
> Try: "yum -y update"
>
> The -y indicates to automatically say 'yes'.
On FC2 there is a cron job controlled by 'chkconfig'.
$ chkconfig --list | grep yum
yum 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off
You can turn it on:
chkconfig yum on
or off
chkconfig yum off
The cron file uses the -y flag and looks like this:
$ cat /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron
#!/bin/sh
if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/yum ]; then
/usr/bin/yum -R 10 -e 0 -d 0 -y update yum
/usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -y update
fi
I sort of like the idea of adding a download only flag to the yum.cron
file myself. Then the download time is suffered by the machine
and I have more visibility of the action. YMMV.
There is nothing preventing a FC1 user from hand installing this stuff.
The file chkconfig finds looks like:
$ cat /etc/init.d/yum
#!/bin/bash
#
# yum This shell script enables the automatic use of YUM
#
# Author: Seth Vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
#
# chkconfig: - 50 01
#
# description: Enable daily run of yum, a program updater.
# processname: yum
# config: /etc/yum.conf
#
# source function library
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/yum
RETVAL=0
start() {
echo -n $"Enabling nightly yum update: "
touch "$lockfile" && success || failure
RETVAL=$?
echo
}
stop() {
echo -n $"Disabling nightly yum update: "
rm -f "$lockfile" && success || failure
RETVAL=$?
echo
}
restart() {
stop
start
}
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart|force-reload)
restart
;;
reload)
;;
condrestart)
[ -f "$lockfile" ] && restart
;;
status)
if [ -f $lockfile ]; then
echo $"Nightly yum update is enabled."
RETVAL=0
else
echo $"Nightly yum update is disabled."
RETVAL=3
fi
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|reload|force-reload|condrestart}"
exit 1
esac
exit $RETVAL
Now you have all the parts.
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