On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 17:19:42 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > William John Murray wrote: > > 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. > Do a "rpm -q atrpms" to verify the cron job was installed as part of the atrpms package. If it was you might try reinstalling the package from the ATrpms repo.
