Clint Harshaw wrote: > > I'm not using the patch (I simply wanted to show that I had done my > homework prior to posting) because I haven't seen anyone else's yum.conf > that uses it. And I am using mirrors -- my yum.conf is basically the > same one found at the artoo site. > > The same symptoms are going on at my work machine as well (which I am at > right now). I have yum checked in services, I'm using mirrors, but it's > not doing the updates. By any chance do you access the internet via a proxy server? If so then yum will pick up the proxy address from the HTTP_PROXY environment variable when you run it interactively (you didn't say, but I'm assuming that if you run "yum update" manually then everything's OK?), but will fail from the overnight cron job. The trouble is that the cron environment doesn't have the proxy information in it so you need to hack the yum cron script to do this for you. Below is my yum.cron script. Just adjust the proxy values to match your site details and it should work OK. $ more /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron #!/bin/sh export http_proxy=http://wwwcache.example.com:8080 if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/yum ]; then /usr/bin/yum -R 10 -e 0 -d 0 -y update yum /usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -y update fi
