On Wednesday 23 Jun 2004 16:10, James Kosin wrote: > Colin J Thomson wrote: > | I found that there is a service for Yum "to auto update" but have been > | struggling to get it to work. I have checked the config, and > | chkconfig shows it as running: > | > | yum 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > | > | Am I right in assuming that it is run as part of cron.daily > > | file "yum.cron" in my /etc/cron.daily DIR. > | Since I setup this to run and when my cron.daily runs the Yum auto > | update does not work am I missing something here, perhaps another > | config file > Tell us the output of > service yum status Oh I forgot that: [colinjt@localhost cron.daily]$ service yum status Nightly yum update is enabled. > 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. Ok, thanks for this info, so am I right in assuming that somewhere there is a config file that says what time the Yum update runs.. because this Box is not on 24/7, thats why I changed my cron times to suit. Thanks Colin -- Fedora Core 2, Custom Built Kernel 2.6.7 KDE-Redhat-3.2.3 Registered Linux user number 342953
