How do I enable nightly yum?

Tue May 17 20:53:57 UTC 2005

Anthony J Placilla wrote:

> chkconfig yum on
> will set the appropriate rc scripts to enable yum to start at boot
> 
> to actually turn it on you will need to do
> 
> service yum start
> 
> one time after you chkconfig'ed it on

What does it actually mean for yum to be "on"?

I would have thought a daily (or rather nightly) cron job
running "yum -y update" would be what most people would want,
at least on a desktop.

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