How To Configure Automatic Updates?
In this Tutorial we will cover how to configure automatic updates on CentOS. It is essential that you keep your servers and desktops fully up to date. With the constant threat of attacks to systems, it is only a matter of time before you find your systems down, encrypted or even worse, your data completely lost.
Steps:
yum install yum-cron
[root@cen7 ~]# yum install yum-cron
Once Installation done enable cron services
Enable and start the Yum-cron
[root@cen7 ~]# systemctl enable yum-cron
Enable cron
[root@cen7 ~]# systemctl start yum-cron
Verify that the service is running
[root@cen7 ~]# systemctl status yum-cron
Go to yum library
There will be two configuration files inside the /etc/yum
Cd /etc/yum
There will be two options
yum-cron-hourly.conf – hourly
yum-cron.conf – yearly
Open the yum-cron-hourly.conf file in your preferred text editor
[root@cen7 yum]# vi yum-cron-hourly.conf
Option 2:
[root@cen7 yum]# vi yum-cron.conf
