Vreme: 12/14/2011 05:58 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx piše: > Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> Vreme: 12/14/2011 04:07 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx piše: >>> Back in the Fedora docs I found on a google, it mentions that in FC6, >>> the preferred tool for updates was the "new" yum-updatesd. Anyone know: >>> a) what theological reason upstream had to drop it altogether, and b) >>> what's the recommended replacement - is it yum-cron? >>> >>> I hand-update some servers, and of course users' workstations, but some >>> system, like home directory servers and backup servers are extremely >>> unlikely to break with an autoupdate, so this is of immediate interest. >> >> There is the whole thread on the RepoForge mailing list with so caled >> solutions: >> >> http://lists.repoforge.org/pipermail/users/2011-December/022592.html > > Oy, as they say, vey. > > And I worked on Spacewalk in early '09. AAARRRRGHGHGHGHHGHGHHHH!!!! It > went from .3 to .4 while I was trying to implement it, and I think it hit > .5 as I left that contract. It was a nightmare to install and configure; I > had to tune the free Oracle version to use almost all available memory (it > had a max of 1G for the free version), and on, and on. > > Sounds as though I might want to roll out something like > 5 1 * * * yum -y update > > mark Someone offered to recompiled it. I would if I had time. Maybe if nothing shows up in next few weeks.. But then again those needing automatic updates like to keep their systems third-party free... -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos