> Am 17.02.2019 um 14:28 schrieb Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org>: > >> On Feb 16, 2019, at 15:14, Tate Belden <wyo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> One can also do the 'yum-cron' dance to automate updates. >> Good writeup and description here: >> >> https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-setup-automatic-security-updates-on-centos-7/ > > 1.) yum-cron with “update_cmd = security” wont do anything for CentOS because > it doesn’t have security metadata in its repos. EPEL will get updates. The > person who wrote this must be using RHEL or some clone that publishes > security metadata. Looking at google for this topic shows a lot of people get > this wrong, which means there are probably a lot of insecure systems out > there. > > 2.) pet peeve: use “grep searchterm filename” and not “cat filename | grep > searchterm”. > > 3.) you don’t need to restart the yum-cron.service systemctl unit after > modifying yum.conf, since it’s not a running service, it just touches a file > that tells the cron job that it
Hallo. thanks to all for the answers. One aspect is unclear for me. Updates are published using the update-directory like the one in my question? Ralf _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
