I'm trying to write a crontab entry to run yum update at 0100 and this is as far as I've got '0 1 * * * /usr/bin/yum update' but I'm unsure if this will work. Can anyone reassure me please, or if not, what is the correct syntax?
I know that I can run it as a 'service' but that means that it runs at the same time as logwatch and it then doesn't get recorded in logwatch, so I'm hoping that if I run it in advance of logwatch, then logwatch will record
it.
Simply take /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron and move it to /usr/local/bin. Edit it to remove the if/fi block. Then your crontab entry would be:
0 1 * * * /usr/local/bin/yum.cron
This is all that would be left of yum.cron:
#!/bin/sh /usr/bin/yum -R 10 -e 0 -d 0 -y update yum /usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -y update
.../Ed
-- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program
