On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 12:06:42PM -0500, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> On 04/26/2016 11:59 AM, Dan McDaniel wrote:
> >Is there any way to get yum-cron to read environment variables? There
> >doesn't seem to be anyway in /etc/yum/yum-cron.conf. They seem to expect
> >you to edit that file on every single system.
> >
> >I want to change the email_from setting because getting 100 emails all
> >from "root@localhost" is less than helpfull. On 6.x the emails came from
> >root@$HOSTNAME, but I can't find any way to make this work on 7.x.
> >
> >Am I missing something simple?
> >
> 
> Alas no you are not missing anything:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121189


Use the much better yum-autoupdate from CERN instead:

http://www.triumf.info/wiki/DAQwiki/index.php/SLinstall#Enable_automatic_system_updates_.28CentOS7.29


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