On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 06:26, Clint wrote: > I'm having trouble getting yum to update nightly. I have a check in the > box found under Redhat->System Settings->Service->yum, but it's not > actually doing the updates, I checked yesterday by doing a manual yum > update and seeing the list that were available, but choosing "N" (No) to > see if the machine was doing it on its own. I'm checking now, and those > same updates are available along with the kudzu update. I'm guessing > there is something else that must be done to get yum to carry out the > updates automatically each night besides putting a checkmark in that box > -- what have I omitted? The current status is: > > "Nightly yum update is enabled." > > I found the following URL included a "patch" to the /etc/yum.conf file, > but I haven't seen other folks' yum.conf patched in this manner. > > http://www.muug.mb.ca/fedora-updates.html > > I also searched Fedoranews.org, but didn't find a solution to this > specific problem. > > Clint > -- > Clint <clint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> That "patch" is just telling yum to use muug.mb.ca as a mirror instead of the default redhat site. If you haven't configured yum to use a mirror and are using the defautl .conf file, your nightly yum update is probably just timing out. Please check out http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/ for instructions. Wayne
