On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 13:58 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > I did a `yum check-update` this morning when I woke, i saw several > packages available for update although I have the yum service turned on, > and my pc had been on all night. I went to work and then cable back for > lunch, same packages are available. When exaclt does the yum 'nightly' > service do it's thing? > > Just wanted to know, thanks. The nightly yum job is called from /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron This file runs yum twice, once to update yum itself and then again to update everything else. The -R parameter is used to add a random delay so that the various mirrors aren't all clobbered at once by every Fedora system on the Internet. The first session has an up-to-10-minute delay and the second has an up-to-2-hour delay. So the yum session that does most of the work will run between 0 and 130 minutes after yum.cron is called. yum.cron is called from cron.daily, which in turn is run from /etc/crontab at 4:02am local time by default. So the answer to your original question is "roughly sometime between 4am and about 6:15am". Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
