On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 07:18:55PM +0300, Kimmo Koivisto wrote: > 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 You are correct and I started yum, but the bigger question still remains what does yum.cron do. -- ======================================================================= "There... I've run rings 'round you logically" -- Monty Python's Flying Circus ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
