On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 02:11:36PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "a" == akonstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > a> You are correct and I started yum, but the bigger question still > a> remains what does yum.cron do. > > Once per day cron will run every script in /etc/cron.daily, which > includes yum.cron. That script first checks to see if yum was enabled > by /etc/init.d/yum; to do this it checks for the existence of > /var/lock/sybsys/yum. If that file is not present the script just > exits without doing anything. Otherwise it invokes yum. > > This arrangement allows you to use the standard initscripts system > (chkconfig, service, and various graphical tools) to control whether > or not yum runs nightly. Otherwise you'd have to manage things > manually. Of course, you still can do things manually if you really > want to. > > - J< Look, I appretiate that people answer my questions but why won't some on tell me the answer to this question. I asume the last line in the script does a yum update. But why is such a complex line needed. Where does shell come from and what do the commands in: do exactly. The file /etc/init.d is a joke. All that to create a lock file for a program it does not run, That is at least a minor violation of the concept behind the scripts in /etc/init.d -- ======================================================================= Somehow, the world always affects you more than you affect it. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
