CentOS - Dec 2008 - yum-updatesd or similar for CentOS 4

Hello,

we have enabled yum-updatesd on our dozen real
and virtual machines running CentOS 5.2 some time
ago and are very satisfied:

afarber at ablsw01:~> grep -v ^# /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf
[main]
run_interval = 7200
updaterefresh = 1200

emit_via = email
dbus_listener = no

do_update = yes
do_download = yes
do_download_deps = yes

(it would be good to make it use the proxy though...)

My plan is to keep the update mails and if
anything goes wrong, install the older packages.
But until now I never needed to do that :-)

However we have few machines running CentOS 4.7
which we can't upgrade to 5 (because of Oracle 9 etc.)

Is there some similar service available?

Or has anybody experience in putting "yum -y update"
into crontab for  CentOS 4? Any good advices?

Thank you
Alex

<snip>
> However we have few machines running CentOS 4.7
> which we can't upgrade to 5 (because of Oracle 9 etc.)
>
> Is there some similar service available?
>
> Or has anybody experience in putting "yum -y update"
> into crontab for  CentOS 4? Any good advices?
chkconfig yum on
service yum start

Barry Brimer wrote:
> chkconfig yum on
> service yum start
yum-cron ?


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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org>
wrote:
> Barry Brimer wrote:
>> chkconfig yum on
>> service yum start
>
> yum-cron ?
yum-cron is available for CentOS-4 ???

Akemi

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 14:24 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at
centos.org> wrote:
> > Barry Brimer wrote:
> >> chkconfig yum on
> >> service yum start
> >
> > yum-cron ?
> 
> yum-cron is available for CentOS-4 ???
Just run a yum available for all my repos. No yum-cron is shown.
> 
> Akemi
> <snip sig stuff>
-- 
Bill

Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at
centos.org> wrote:
>> Barry Brimer wrote:
>>> chkconfig yum on
>>> service yum start
>> yum-cron ?
> 
> yum-cron is available for CentOS-4 ???
rpm -ql yum | grep cron


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Alexander Farber napsal(a):
> However we have few machines running CentOS 4.7
> which we can't upgrade to 5 (because of Oracle 9 etc.)
> 
> Is there some similar service available?
> 
> Or has anybody experience in putting "yum -y update"
> into crontab for  CentOS 4? Any good advices?
> 
Hi Alexander,
I'm running yum 3.0.6 on my 4.7 boxes. I have plans to create dbus
client emitting messages via xml-rpc to Cacti. See
http://fs12.vsb.cz/hrb33/el4/hrb/testing/i386/repodata/repoview/Y.group.html
Regards,
David Hrb?c(