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[ILUG] Auto-Updating FC1 with Yum

[ILUG] Auto-Updating FC1 with Yum

Daragh Mc Grath daragh.ilug at eircom.net
Wed Apr 21 14:01:39 IST 2004


Frank Murphy wrote:

Hi Frank,

> Is it safe to do it unattended,
> while getting a good night sleep?

Yes, I can't see any problems with this. There were issues with some 
fedora packages not having the correct MD% checksums recently, but in 
this case yum would give out and wait for user interaction anyways.

> Is it possible while logged on as user not root?

Set up a cron job as root to do this for you.

Daragh



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