Mail List <lists <at> sapience.com> writes: > The following work around may help tho: > > yum erase yum-updatesd > cat > /etc/cron.daily/yum_daily_run > #!/bin/bash > yum -y update Indeed so - in fact there is also a point that no-one has made here yet - I think: With a daemon doing this you cannot "directly" get it to run at a specific time of day/night. With a cron job you certainly can control when it happens - and for those users who have broadband connections with a prime time usage cap, then ensuring that downloads for yum occur during the night only (when usage is uncapped is extremely valuable. I suppose that once this problem has been properly fixed then it will be possible to set the repeat interval to 3600*24 and then set the daemon going using something like at 4am service start yum-updatesd ... and then it will update every night at the same time. However it is pretty frustrating that this has not been fixed yet.
