Stephen_Isard wrote > Hope that's helpful. It was very helpful, thank you. The info you cited seems true for SL5, though; SL6 appears quite different. In SL6,
root@vm-37-00> rpm -ql yum-autoupdate /etc/cron.daily/yum-autoupdate /etc/sysconfig/yum-autoupdate Whereas yum-cron contains many more config files & etc, has to be chkconfig'd on, etc. yum-autoupdate config file has an exclude line in it; yum-cron's doesn't. So it looks like for simplicity & functionality, yum-autoupdate on SL6 gives what's wanted - can exclude things, get the daily automatic update, & much less config cruft. Thank you for your help.