Re: When exactly does yum do it's job?

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Subject: Re: When exactly does yum do it's job?
From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:50:34 +0100
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Douglas Frank wrote:

Just one more thing-- who/what (re)creates /var/lock/subsys/yum?


/etc/rc.d/init.d/yum

So it gets created if you do a "service yum start", and removed if you do a "service yum stop".

Paul.

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- Re: When exactly does yum do it's job?
  - From: Douglas Frank