seth vidal wrote: > 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, Ok. I have some ideas about integrating it with the current yum init script and cron job that I'd like to run by you. > > 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 I'll go ahead and make a tarball later today with the files as well as the .spec I made for it. I was hoping someone might suggest a better name. I started calling it 'yum-update', but changed it to 'yum-updateonboot' right before I posted it since I thought 'yum-update' might be confusing.
