Gerd v. Egidy wrote: >>> I want to have all updates installed within 1 hour after publishing them >>> on my local yum repo. But not all servers should install their update at >>> the same time and I want to keep their configuration as identical as >>> possible. So no crontabs with different yum-crons, the update time is >>> just spread by different boot times. >> >> in centos 6 anacron is used for regular jobs. In fact cron.daily, weekly >> and monthly are run through anacrontab by default now. >> >> It allows you to add a random delay before starting jobs. You specify >> the max delay. > > Thanks for the tip. > >> Maybe check it out, seems like it could solve your problem. > > just read the manpage of anacron: "...with a frequency specified in days". > > So that doesn't help me with my maximum update response time of one hour.
oh yeah, sorry. I hadn't seen that it doesn't work for hourly jobs. _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.repoforge.org/mailman/listinfo/users
