Jeric wrote:
In the sense that I could have my updates be updated overnight without any kind of human intervention, on a repetitive timed basis?
This has been there in SuSE since I don't know when. I myself have discovered documentation about it in the locally installed SuSE help (it's the last place I looked :-) ). First, edit /etc/suseservers and put the preferred (nearest, least hops) mirror first. Then edit /etc/sysconfig/onlineupdate YAST2_LOADFTPSERVER="no" Then add a script called "autoupdate" in /etc/cron.daily (don't forget to chmod u+x /etc/cron.daily/autoupdate). The script: # download patches yast2 online_update .auto.get # install downloaded patches yast2 online_update .auto.install If you preffer, you can download subgroups of packets like this: yast2 online_update .auto.get security Other than security, there are: "recommended", "document", "YasT2", "optional" To erase, after installation, the downloaded update packages, I thought of this (anyone, is there a better way?): SuSE 8.0: rm -rf /var/lib/YaST/patches/* SuSE 8.1: rm -rf /var/lib/YaST2/you/* -- Linux/Unix Systems Engineer http://www.genesys.ro Phone +40723-267961