> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:58:34 +0100 > From: Colin J Thomson <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Yum update Service help > To: "fedora-list" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <200406231558.34864.colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi all, > > I need some help please, > 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 because I see a > 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 that > needs changing. > > Thanks in advance > > Colin > > -- > Fedora Core 2, Custom Built Kernel 2.6.7 > KDE-Redhat-3.2.3 > Registered Linux user number 342953 > > Did you make sure that yum is running as a service: service yum status Nightly yum update is enabled. Ed