mysql-server
David Rees
drees at greenhydrant.com
Wed Mar 30 16:19:02 UTC 2005
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
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