Yes, I know that yum is run from cron together with other stuff. But I assumed that the result of a yum-job was entered in yum.log. Now question is, should updates performed by yum end up in yum.log, it seems to do it most of the times. With best regards Tomas Larsson Sweden Verus Amicus Est Tamquam Alter Idem > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andy Green > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 8:56 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: Yum and Yum log > > > Tomas Larsson wrote: > > It seems that yum is updating the system, but there are no > entries in > > yum.log from time to time. This morning tripwire reports > changes in my > > system, at the same time as yum is run. > > Prelink.log and rpmpkgs.log was changed at the same time, > but there is > > absolutly no entries in yum.log of this. > > > > Is there some sort of delay in writing the log or is there some > > configuration that needs to be done, or is it simply some > sort of bug > > somewhere. > > Hi Tomas - > > Both these things are done off daily cronjobs and don't have > anything to do with yum. Have a look at what is in > > /etc/cron.daily/ > > and you will see all kinds of things happening "behind your > back". Tripwire is a bit noisy for such events, perhaps you > can configure it to not report those particular files. But > your paranoia level seems to be set just right in terms of > wanting to know what changed and why! > > -Andy >
