On Sunday 14 August 2005 18:56, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Ok noting happens if /var/lock/subsys/yum does not exist and in > my installation it did not initially exist so I created it with a touch > command. > There is a chkconfig compatible script ( /etc/init.d/yum ) that creates the /var/lock/subsys/yum file. It's disabled by default so you can enable it with chkconfig: #chkconfig yum on and if you don't wan't to reboot, you can start yum script manually: #service yum start Regards Kimmo Koivisto