Am Mo, den 19.01.2004 schrieb Allan Metts um 02:10: > I am absolutely baffled. /var/log/yum.log shows all of these packages were > updated at 5:26 a.m. this morning. I was sound asleep at that time -- and > unless my dogs have picked up Linux, no one else did it. My system time is > accurately synced to ntp, and crontab is empty for all users. > > I ran "nohup up2date -u" from the command line the day before, and > nohup.out showed a failure. Does up2date include some sort of periodic > retry logic? > > If not, the only thing I can think of is that yesterday's process took 12 > hours to successfully finish the download on a broadband connection, and I > looked at the wrong nohup.out to check the results. The man and the control over his machine ... You probably have the yum service on (to be checked with "chkconfig --list yum" or "service yum status") which does an automatic nightly run. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653
