Hello FC3 users, I am confused by yum in cron, it doesn't seem to work for me.
If I "/sbin/chkconfig --list yum" I see: yum 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off which looks good. There is a file '/etc/cron.daily/yum.cron' (which if I run it interactively seems to update yum.)
/var/log/cron was run at 4am, but there is no sign of it having done anything at all. Certainly my system was not updated, but where should it leave any error messages? I can add debug by hand of course, but it is a very slow turnaround, and surely there must be a log file somewhere?
If you change the "-R 10" and "-R 120" options in /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron to "-R 1", the script will run much more quickly.
Yum should log packages installed and updated in /var/log/yum.log
If you run "yum update" manually up to the point where it says "is the OK?" (you can say "no" whilst experimenting), does it complain about any missing dependencies?
I found a top about timing on: http://aaltonen.us/archive/2004/10/ which requires a file /etc/cron.daily/yum which I do not have. Is my installation defective?
I doubt it; maybe the /etc/cron.daily/yum was a typo.
Paul.
