CentOS

Hi,

I am test running Scientific Linux 5.0 -RC2. I am not very comfortable with this yum thing -
I used the up2date/ RH notification that sat on the panel to update the softwares on SL4.4
( read CentOS 4.4 - or are there any major differences?).

Is there something equivalent for CentOS which does this 'automatically' ? I tried yumex but it was
not as smooth/easy as using up2date.

In case you don't have alternatives - a link to a complete idiot's guide to yum would suffice.

Thanks,

A.

yum install yum-cron

then

chkconfig yum on
/etc/init.d/yum start

Akemi

Thanks - but would this be appropriate for a laptop?
I don't keep laptop on all the time.

A.

Then look into puplet.

The program "anacron" is the "not always on cron". Install anacron via "yum install anacron" (likely already on the system) and then "chkconfig anacron on".

Edit: anacron will do all cron jobs for not-always-on boxen in a "sane" fashion (eg updatedb etc).

[quote]
toracat wrote:
Then look into puplet.[/quote]

Afaik, Puplet needs PUP and PUP needs Pirut, which is not included in CentOS (http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.0/German).
Is it possible to use PUP with CentOS5?

Pirut is included.