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Enabling Automatic Software Updates on CentOS 5

It's important to keep your server software up-to-date. The commands below will enable automatic nightly updates using CentOS 5's default yum package manager.

<sxh bash>yum -y install yum-cron crontabs vixie-cron service cron start chkconfig –level 2345 yum-cron on service yum-cron start</code>