> 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 ?
Oh, nothing really. It just seemed that updatesd should do what I was trying to do without having to use cron. I guess the simplest thing to do would be your last suggestion, leave updatesd alone and just use cron to run 'yum -y --downloadonly update' in the middle of the night. Thanks for your help. _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum