On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 02:48:50PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > Previously, the entire yum-cron shell script lived in /etc/cron.daily, using > options set in /etc/sysconfig/yum-cron to further restrict the days when > updates and cleanup are done. This moves the main functionality to a > stand-alone shell script, but the logic for days-to-run stays in the cron > scripts. That keeps everything compatible and is nice and simple, but also > allows one to replace the cron configuration with, for example, updates > which run multiple times per day.
So what's all this then? :) Basically, we want to run yum-cron every three hours. I can imagine other people wanting the script to run at carefully-specified times. But the existing yum-cron script isn't very flexible, making several assumptions that it will be called daily (and it _lives_ in cron.daily). This patch moves things around a bit, but I resisted the urge to make further functional changes, at least as much as I could. If this is accepted, I do have a few more changes I'd like to make -- minor code cleanup/consistency, documentation, and a few feature enhancements. (Notably, basic logging to syslog on success or failure, and different e-mail subject lines based on the same.) -- Matthew Miller [email protected] <http://mattdm.org/> _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
