Steven Cote wrote:
Forgive me if this is a braindead question, but I can't seem to find the answer in any of the docs. What I'm trying to accomplish is to set yum-updatesd so that it will check for updates during the night, download them and send the notification. The downloading and notification is easy (do_update, do_download and do_download_deps), but I'm having trouble setting the schedule.
Because there isn't one.
As best I can tell, the only scheduling parameter is 'run_interval' which only nominates how often it checks without any care of what time of day that interval occurs in. What I'd really like is something similar to the way you schedule cron tasks.
What's wrong with using cron ?
The reason it's important or me to nominate a particular time of day to run is because my ISP imposes limits my data transfers from 08h00 to 00h00, but from 00h00 to 08h00 it's unlimited. Obviously, I'd like all my updates to be downloaded during this window. Is there a simple way to accomplish what I'm doing with yum-updatesd?
Yes, how about two cron items: 05 0 * * * service yum-updatesd start 30 7 * * * service yum-updatesd stop and change the same service to not run by default. or alternately: install the yum-downloadonly yum plugin. and schedule for midnite and 7:30: yum -y --downloadonly update , but leave the yum-updatesd config as original [notify only]. DaveT. _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
