yum update during reboot in RHEL 7

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Any ideas here:
server needs to perform 'yum update -y' during reboot so that new kernel is automatically installed and patched to latest version. I tried below in RHEL 7 but not working:
[Unit]
Description=Yum udpates
Before=systemd-reboot.service
DefaultDependencies=no
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/yum update -y
Type=forking
[Install]
WantedBy=reboot.target

when i change WantedBy=multi-user.target its working but that's when server is coming up which doesn't help.

expect to see: yum update needs to run when server is going down(not when server is coming up) so that upon reboot server boots with new kernel.

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Jonathan Groves's picture Active Contributor 195 points
25 January 2016 2:55 PM

I'll probably get shot down in flames for this, but why not create a script file in /etc/rd.d/rc6.d called K01patch to issue your yum update -y

RA Community Member 25 points
25 January 2016 3:10 PM

Redhat helped and provided solution: For redhat/centos: no need for perms change.

File: /etc/systemd/system/yum-update.service

Content:

#

[Unit] Description=yum-update After=local-fs.target remote-fs.target network.target network-online.target rsyslog.service

[Service] Type=oneshot RemainAfterExit=true ExecStart=/bin/true ExecStop=/bin/yum update -y

[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

#
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