Re: Runnning YUM via cron

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Guido Leisker wrote:

> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 11:34 +0100, Arne Drechsler wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> is it a good idea to have yum run automatically every night ? Since it
>>> also updates things like sql server and this sometimes causes trouble
>>> I'm wondering wether it is a good idea. Anybody has good/bad experience
>>> with it ? Are there solutions to have yum run savely and not touch any
>>> running things or rewrite configs ?
>>
>>
>> My experience is: No, this isn't a good idea. Neither yum, nor the
>> repos, nor the rpm are in a shape to leave yum running unattended.
>>
>> /me ducks and waits for flames ;)
>>
>> Ralf
>>
>>
> Isn't there the Problem, that you have to submit the updating of
> packages?
> Therefor you would have to run a script.
> Or maybe there is a switch to tell yum not to ask.
> But I'd think the question is not there for nothing.
>
> guido
>
yes with the '-y' switch yum assumes that you say yes to everything :

yum -y update

regards


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