Once upon a time, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > I've heard from other quarters that even Microsoft's update > notifier is becoming more sensible than ours. They even have > a 'download the updates in the background when things are idle' > option aparently, which sounds cute. (think I'd rather be around > when it applies them though). On a couple of workstations I use: 45 6 * * 1-5 t=`mktemp /tmp/yum.XXXXXXXX`; yum check-update >& /dev/null; yum -C check-update >& $t || (h=`hostname | cut -d. -f1`; cat $t | mail -s "Updates available for $h" root; yum -y --download-only update >& /dev/null); rm -f $t When there are updates, I get an email and they are automatically downloaded so they are ready to go when I am ready to load them. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
