On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:45:01AM -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > 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. Please Kam, that reply is totally useless (_you_ should be verifying _before_ posting), no need to show your love for ATrpms every second post you make ;) Ceterum censeo ATrpmsa culpa esse. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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