> Michal Jaegermann > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:25:24AM -0600, Pettit, Paul wrote: > > > David Rees wrote: > > > ... add the following to root's > > > crontab: > > > > > > 0 7 * * 1,2,3,4,5 /etc/<somewhere>/yum.cron > > > > > > > Yeah that will work for now but dealing with holidays is a bit more > > tricky. Yum nor Crom really don't have any method for > dealing with it > > Sigh! As it was sugested already you start your update script > with something of that sort > *sigh* Yes I know. > #!/bin/bash > ..... > today=$(date +%Y%m%d) > > while read banned comment; do > [ "$today" = "$banned" ] && exit 0 > done < /usr/local/share/my_no_update_day_list > ..... > # now we are running yum or whatever else > .... > > and what you put on /usr/local/share/my_no_update_day_list is entirely > up to you and is really not possible for anybody else to know what > particular policies you may desire. > That's a good addition. Thanks. > BTW - "1,2,3,4,5" above can be also written as "1-5" or "mon-fri" if > you prefer. Once again - 'man 5 crontab'. > I didn't think it nessisary to take Dave to task on such a simple thing. There is however a possible reason to leave it as '1,2,3,4,5'. That way all you need to do is delete a single entry to blank out a day instead of rewriting '1-5' into '1,2,4,5' (i.e. blanking out Wed) each time. Meh, just a thought. > Can we stop all of that now? > > Michal > Stop all what? I think the discussion has run it's course actually. Beyond a few comments here and there. As for providing a script / documentation for admins to better control updates from FL via Yum why would we stop that? Paul Pettit -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
