The DNF Automatic configuration file defines the parameters for automated software updates in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10. By managing these settings, you can customize update behaviors to maintain system security consistently with minimal manual effort.

By default, DNF Automatic uses /etc/dnf/automatic.conf as its configuration file to define its behavior. The configuration file has the following topical sections:

• [commands]

  Sets the mode of operation of DNF Automatic.

  Warning
  Settings of the operation mode from the [commands] section are overridden by settings used by a systemd timer unit for all timer units except dnf-automatic.timer.
• [emitters]

  Defines how the results of DNF Automatic are reported.

• [command]

  Defines the command emitter configuration.

• [command_email]

  Provides the email emitter configuration for an external command used to send email.

• [email]

  Provides the email emitter configuration.

• [base]

  Overrides settings from the main configuration file of DNF.

With the default settings of the /etc/dnf/automatic.conf file, DNF Automatic checks for available updates, downloads them, and reports the results to standard output.