Pacman -Syu as a CRON job?

Question

OK, ... before the flames errupt ... I'm not managing any mission-critical systems.
My interest in 'pacman -Syu' as a CRON job is for personal and friend's systems.  I'm wondering if you could post your cron scripts as an example for me to learn from.  How to you prefer to set your pacman.conf for this sort of thing?
I'm mostly interested in the security benefits and new-features of using new/current packages by this automation.
Thanx.

Answer 1

I higly suggest you to do not run pacman as cronjob, but anyway there is nothing particular to do.
At first ensure you have crond configured and running.
Then just go into /etc/
there are some directory with cron.[something]
chose with which frequency youw ant to run the cron job
then just create a file in the appropriate directory
For pacman it shoul look like
#!/bin/sh
pacman -Syu
I suggest you to use the
IgnorePkg = <package> [package]
in pacman config file in wich you specify wich package MUST NOT be update, for instance lilo.
Consider that and indiscriminate automatic updating can potentially leed to an unsuable system.