akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Second, one of the convention behind both Linux and Unix is the > existence of a lock file means its associated daemon is running. To have a > lock file exist when the daemon is not running violates this convention -- If the lock file exists, cron runs yum. If the lock file doesn't exist, cron doesn't run yum. Seems like it follows the "convention" to me. I'm sure if you find the person that created the whole setup, they would say that it makes it easier for people new to Fedora to enable automatic updating. I would agree that exposing it as a daemon makes it easier to control that just a cron job would be. -- William Hooper
