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...il now I always kept my servers up-to-date manually. Currently I'm experimenting with yum-cron to automate this process. I read through various online tutorials, and now I have a couple questions. 1. As far as I know, when editing /etc/yum/yum-cron.conf, I can only use the following value for update_cmd : update_cmd = default If I understand this correctly, 'update_cmd = security' would have no effect, since contrary to RHEL, CentOS doesn't provide the necessary metadata to operate the distinction between security updates and other updates like mere bugfixes. Please correct me if I...

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/ On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 11:37 PM Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com> wrote: > On 16/02/19 6:59 PM, Ralf Prengel wrote: > > Hallo, > > as a beginner using centos I?ve a question

...2019, at 15:14, Tate Belden <wyoham at 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 ther...

...t;wyoham at 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 ther...