On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 15:08 -0500, 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. Sean, This is cool. Now I see why you've been bugging me about exit values this week. :) We should talk at GB or lunch one day about what would make this script easier to write/maintain in yum 2.2.x and above. thanks, do you want me to add these to a dir in: http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/misc/ ? If you'd rather post a tarball of it, let me know -sv