Anthony J Placilla wrote: > chkconfig yum on > will set the appropriate rc scripts to enable yum to start at boot > > to actually turn it on you will need to do > > service yum start > > one time after you chkconfig'ed it on What does it actually mean for yum to be "on"? I would have thought a daily (or rather nightly) cron job running "yum -y update" would be what most people would want, at least on a desktop. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland