Once upon a time, Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com> said:
I've heard from other quarters that even Microsoft's update
notifier is becoming more sensible than ours. They even have
a 'download the updates in the background when things are idle'
option aparently, which sounds cute. (think I'd rather be around
when it applies them though).
On a couple of workstations I use:
45 6 * * 1-5 t=`mktemp /tmp/yum.XXXXXXXX`; yum check-update >& /dev/null; yum -C
check-update >& $t || (h=`hostname | cut -d. -f1`; cat $t | mail -s "Updates
available for $h" root; yum -y --download-only update >& /dev/null); rm -f $t
When there are updates, I get an email and they are automatically
downloaded so they are ready to go when I am ready to load them.
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.