Byron Kapali wrote: > Mahalo Tom for your reply. Question: How do I "tell cron to yum -y > upgrade every night"? What program do I use to edit the cron? > > Byron
Thankfully it's already set up to do it. but it's not supposed to work unless /var/lock/subsys/yum exists. I guess they did that to make a user-friendly way to turn it on (via system-config-services, i guess). the console way to do it: "chkconfig yum on && service yum start" then, it will automatically start to "yum update yum; yum update" every day. Another service, rhnsd (it uses up2date instead of yum), is supposed to do something similar but it's not verbose enough for me. You can turn that off in services - or, "chkconfig rhnsd off && service rhnsd stop". Tom