[Yum] Fermi's crontab

[Troy Dawson]

Howdy Ho,
I think I've gotten most of the major bugs worked out of this.  It's been 
running a few days on several machines, and seems to do what we want.  We put 
this cron script in the /etc/cron.daily directory.

I really don't plan on you putting this into the product, I just wanted to 
show you what we are doing.

A few notes
1) Yes, it does need to be cleaned up a bit, as far as commented out lines, 
and more comments for readability.
2) Yes, we know that doing yum install is risky (see workgroups).  We keep 
tight control on those sections on the server.  (not that we don't with the 
rest of the server, but you know what I mean)
3) Yes, we do clean up the users regular yum area at the end.  For fermi, we 
have good bandwith pretty much everywhere. It is much more likely that a user 
won't know about the clean command, fill up his disk with old rpms, and yell 
at us, than he will complain because he has to download another rpm.

Troy

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Troy Dawson  dawson at fnal.gov  (630)840-6468
Fermilab  ComputingDivision/OSS  CSI Group
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