Tips for making software updates automatic in OpenSuse (zypper)

Question

I'm currently working in a command line only environment.

I would like to perform daily updates automatically using zypper, however I can't find a good way to do it. By good I mean clean and simple.

Is it safe to execute sudo zypper update daily using cron? I was told that this isn't always a good way to do it.

Are there other ways I could make package updates through zypper completely automatic?

Answer 1

(I solved this a while ago, just forgot to post an answer)

I ended up creating a cron job which runs everyday at 3am (my computer stays on 24/7) and invokes an update script.

The script contains only a couple lines and basically refreshes the repositories (zypper ref) and then installs all available updates (zypper up). It has worked for me for the past few months.