Re: Re: cron style yum-updatesd configuration

Steven Cote wrote:
> Forgive me if this is a braindead question, but I can't seem to find
> the answer in any of the docs.
> 
> What I'm trying to accomplish is to set yum-updatesd so that it will
> check for updates during the night, download them and send the
> notification. The downloading and notification is easy (do_update,
> do_download and do_download_deps), but I'm having trouble setting the
> schedule.
Because there isn't one.

> As best I can tell, the only scheduling parameter is 'run_interval'
> which only nominates how often it checks without any care of what time
> of day that interval occurs in. What I'd really like is something
> similar to the way you schedule cron tasks.
What's wrong with using cron ?

> The reason it's important or me to nominate a particular time of day
> to run is because my ISP imposes limits my data transfers from 08h00
> to 00h00, but from 00h00 to 08h00 it's unlimited. Obviously, I'd like
> all my updates to be downloaded during this window.
> 
> Is there a simple way to accomplish what I'm doing with yum-updatesd?
Yes, how about two cron items:
05 0 * * * service yum-updatesd start
30 7 * * * service yum-updatesd stop
and change the same service to not run by default.

or alternately:
install the yum-downloadonly yum plugin.
and schedule for midnite and 7:30:  yum -y --downloadonly update
, but leave the yum-updatesd config as original [notify only].

DaveT.