On my laptop the same functionality appears to be performed by anacron. Have you considered it? Any comments? Mihai On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Sean Dilda wrote: > I've written an init script for RHEL3 that will run 'yum update' on boot. > This is intended for anyone who has a machine down for a few days to a few > weeks or even longer, so that the machine will be updated as its booted, > instead of having to wait for 4am to roll around. > > By default it just runs 'yum update' and keeps going. By modifying the > sysconfig file you can specify groups that the script should call 'yum > groupinstall' on (in case you added packages to your yum groups). You can > also specify packages, that will cause the system to reboot if they're > updated. This is intended for kernels, so the system will do the update, see > the kernel was updated, then immediately reboot into the new kernel. > > I've attached the file. yum-updateonboot.init is intended to become > /etc/rc.d/init.d/yum-updateonboot and yum-updateonboot is intended to become > /etc/sysconfig/yum-updateonboot. > > Any questions/comments/etc would be appreciated. At this point the script > has only seen minimal testing. > > > Thanks, > > > Sean >
