yum-cron(8)

1yum-cron(8)                                                        yum-cron(8)
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NAME

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

10       service yum-cron start
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DESCRIPTION

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

19       CHECK_FIRST  -  Before  we  try  to do anything, check to see if we can
20       reach the repos. If they cannot be reached then silently stop all  fur‐
21       ther actions.  Default no.
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23       CHECK_ONLY - Just run the "yum check-update" command (will not download
24       or install any packages).  Default no.
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26       DOWNLOAD_ONLY - Just run the "yum upgrade  -y  --downloadonly"  command
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29       ERROR_LEVEL  -  The value passed to the "--errorlevel" yum command line
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32       DEBUG_LEVEL - The value passed to the "--debuglevel" yum  command  line
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35       RANDOMWAIT  -  The  value passed to the "--randomwait" yum command line
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38       MAILTO - If this is specified then the cronjob will never  output  any‐
39       thing  directly,  but  will mail it (via. the mail command) to the user
40       specified.  Default (unset).
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42       SYSTEMNAME - How to identify the local machine, when unset we  use  the
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45       DAYS_OF_WEEK  -  A list of the day nummbers to run on, so that yum-cron
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49       CLEANDAY  - Which day of the week should yum-cron tell yum to clean all
50       data from it's cache. Technically this just means it  should  also  run
51       the yum-weekly.yum script.  Default 0.
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53       SERVICE_WAITS  -  When  a  sysadmin. runs "service yum-cron stop" do we
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57       SERVICE_WAIT_TIME  -  Set  maximum  time  period  (in  seconds) for the
58       yum-cron service to wait when stopping, after this timeout  expires  we
59       just  return  failure  to the "service yum-cron stop" command.  Default
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FILES

64       /etc/sysconfig/yum-cron
65       /etc/yum/yum-daily.yum
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AUTHORS

74       See the Authors file included with this program.
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BUGS

78       There of course aren't any bugs, but if you find any, you should email
79        the mailing list, yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org, or consult bugzilla.
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83James Antill                                                       yum-cron(8)