James Kosin said: [snip] > Tell us the output of > service yum status > > chkconfig only tells you if the service is set to autostart on next boot > up and does not tell us if the service is currently running. > > The cron daily items are probably there to parse any log files and > report back via email to root what has been updated or needs updating. Or > if any errors happen along the way. No. All the yum "service" does is create a lock file. The yum.cron file check for the existance of the lock file, and if it exists runs yum. "service yum status" will tell you if the lock file exits. If there is some error in the yum.conf, proxy settings incorrect, etc. it will not give you any useful info. -- William Hooper
