Re: Enable Yum As A Nightly Service

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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




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