yum-cron is an optional package starting from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, this is a plugin for yum. From man page of yum-cron :<\/p>\n
yum-cron is a simple way to call yum commands from cron. It provides configuration to keep repository metadata up to date, and to check for, download, and apply updates.
\nThe yum-cron package provides a convenient way to check for, download and apply updates automatically. The cron jobs from the yum-cron package are active immediately after installing the package and there\u2019s no extra configuration necessary. The job will be run when your normal daily cron jobs are set to run.<\/p>\n
Installation<\/p>\n
To install yum-cron package<\/p>\n
# yum -y install yum-cron
\n# chkconfig yum-cron on
\nConfiguration for RHEL 6<\/p>\n
Then edit \/etc\/sysconfig\/yum-cron to set MAILTO=[email address] for email notifications.<\/p>\n
MAILTO=sys@example.com
\nTo exclude packages using yum-cron edit the \/etc\/sysconfig\/yum-cron to have the packeges to be excluded in the automatic uodate :<\/p>\n
YUM_PARAMETER=kernel* mysql*
\nTo start yum-cron service after editing configuration file.<\/p>\n
# service yum-cron start
\nConfiguration for RHEL 7<\/p>\n
Then edit \/etc\/yum\/yum-cron.conf to set email_to=[email address] for email notifications.<\/p>\n
email_to=sys@example.com
\nTo exclude packages using yum-cron edit the \/etc\/yum\/yum-cron.conf to have the packeges to be excluded in the automatic uodate :<\/p>\n
exclude=kernel* mysql*
\nIn RHEL 7 you can use following options in yum-cron configuration file, to install security updates.<\/p>\n
[commands]
\n# What kind of update to use:
\n# default = yum upgrade
\n# security = yum –security upgrade
\n# security-severity:Critical = yum –sec-severity=Critical upgrade
\n# minimal = yum –bugfix upgrade-minimal
\n# minimal-security = yum –security upgrade-minimal
\n# minimal-security-severity:Critical = –sec-severity=Critical upgrade-minimal
\nupdate_cmd = default
\nTo start yum-cron service after editing configuration file.<\/p>\n
# systemctl start yum-cron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
yum-cron is an optional package starting from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, this is a plugin for yum. From man page of yum-cron :<\/p>\n
yum-cron is a simple way to call yum commands from cron. It provides configuration to keep repository metadata up to date, and to check for, download, and apply updates. The yum-cron […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6677,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions\/6677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}