Re: mysql-server

[David Rees <drees greenhydrant com>]

Mike Vanecek wrote, On 3/30/2005 7:12 AM:
> To each his own, however, I do not use the cron.daily version, but use a 
> crontab entry:
>
> # run yum check for updates daily and mail results to root
> 0 5 * * * root /usr/bin/yum check-update 2>&1 | mail -s "yum check-update 
> output" root

The biggest problem I had with doing what you did is that it emails you 
every day with the output from yum regardless of whether or not there is 
an update.

My script ends up only emailing me when it found an update to apply.

-Dave