Markku Kolkka wrote: >> 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, > > That's exactly what you get when the yum pseudo-service is on. > It sets a flag that is checked by the yum.cron script > in /etc/cron.daily OK, thanks. I saw the flag in the yum.cron script, but didn't realise its purpose. Isn't this a slightly odd way to do things? I always assumed that chkconfig is just for starting daemons. -- 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
