Am 08.12.2011 um 14:45 schrieb Gerd v. Egidy: >>> 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. Of > course I want to be able to have multiple updates per day (for my locally > created packages). > > I still think that yum-updatesd is the best tool for the job.
what about: ln -s /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron /etc/cron.hourly/yum.cron and configuration in /etc/sysconfig/yum-cron does this address your needs? LF _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.repoforge.org/mailman/listinfo/users
