yum update

[Janina Sajka]

Actually, on Fedora, you do not write a script--because it's already
provided.

service yum start

will turn on nightly updates.

chkconfig --level 35 yum on

will enable nightly updates across booted sessions.

Dawes, Stephen writes:
> There are a lot of factors in play.
> 1. the band width of the machine receiving the rpms.
> 2. the band width of the yum repository you have connected to. 
> 3. the number of packages that need upgrading.
> 4. the fact that you are doing an upgrade and not an update.
> 5. the current load on the machine being upgraded.
> 
> So, why not cancel the job, and schedule it to run over night.
> 
> You can use cron to check and apply updates daily weekly monthely ... 
> Al you need to do is put the command
> Yum -y update
> In a script and put into the cron directory of your choice.
> 
> The script would look like
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> yum -y update
> 
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