NAME¶

yum-cron - an interface to convieniently call yum from cron

SYNOPSIS¶

service yum-cron start

DESCRIPTION¶

yum-cron is a simple way to call yum commands from cron. It provides configuration to keep repository metadata up to date, and to check for, download, and apply updates.

CONFIGURATION OPTIONS¶

CHECK_FIRST - Before we try to do anything, check to see if we can reach the repos. If they cannot be reached then silently stop all further actions. Default no.

CHECK_ONLY - Just run the "yum check-update" command (will not download or install any packages). Default no.

DOWNLOAD_ONLY - Just run the "yum upgrade -y --downloadonly" command (does nothing if CHECK_ONLY is set). Default no.

ERROR_LEVEL - The value passed to the "--errorlevel" yum command line option. Default 0.

DEBUG_LEVEL - The value passed to the "--debuglevel" yum command line option. Default 0.

RANDOMWAIT - The value passed to the "--randomwait" yum command line option. Default 60.

MAILTO - If this is specified then the cronjob will never output anything directly, but will mail it (via. the mail command) to the user specified. Default (unset).

SYSTEMNAME - How to identify the local machine, when unset we use the output of the "hostname" command. Default (unset).

DAYS_OF_WEEK - A list of the day nummbers to run on, so that yum-cron can be specified to run everyday and be reconfigured here to run less often. 0 is Sunday. Default 0123456 (everyday).

CLEANDAY - Which day of the week should yum-cron tell yum to clean all data from it's cache. Technically this just means it should also run the yum-weekly.yum script. Default 0.

SERVICE_WAITS - When a sysadmin. runs "service yum-cron stop" do we just turn the cron service off, or do we check if it's running and wait for it to stop before returning. Default yes.

SERVICE_WAIT_TIME - Set maximum time period (in seconds) for the yum-cron service to wait when stopping, after this timeout expires we just return failure to the "service yum-cron stop" command. Default 300.

FILES¶

/etc/sysconfig/yum-cron
/etc/yum/yum-daily.yum
/etc/yum/yum-weekly.yum

SEE ALSO¶

yum (8)

AUTHORS¶

See the Authors file included with this program.

BUGS¶

There of course aren't any bugs, but if you find any, you should email
the mailing list, yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org, or consult bugzilla.