> Winnie Lacesso writes: >> yum-autoupdate config file has an exclude line in it; yum-cron's doesn't. On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Alec T. Habig wrote: > Sure it does. yum does this at a higher level than any scripts one > might write: having this information in contradictory places isn't good > (and has confused be before with the SL cron jobs). For example, in my > laptop's /etc/yum.conf is the line: > > exclude=krb5-devel,krb5-workstation,krb5-libs,NetworkManager-glib,NetworkManager Another advantage of yum-cron is that it uses yum-shell to execute the update as a transaction. The yum-shell script that it executes is: /etc/yum/yum-daily.yum I prefer to add exclusions there instead of /etc/yum.conf . e.g. on web-server that uses php you might want to exlude auto-updates of httpd, mod_*, php* so I would modify /etc/yum/yum-daily.yum to look like this: list updates httpd mod_* php php-* config exclude httpd mod_* php php-* update ts run exit The default version has the last three lines and I prepend the first two. When run from yum-shell, "list updates" only produces output of their are pending updates. Since the whole thing is run from cron, output generates an e-mail to root. So you will only get an e-mail if there are pending updates and also if there are any errors during a normal update. Hope this helps. Kel Raywood TRIUMF