--=-xdcOJmF25QkM8S/xxfuv Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 09:51, R P Herrold wrote: > or maybe a yum pid check at startup. ... >=20 > I was out at a client with intermittent internet access -- I=20 > found this on one of the servers. you see, the real fix to this is a good network connection ;) > check-packages, and yum each are querying into the rpm=20 > database. It is an almost certainty that there is a deadly=20 > embrace on the database here. >=20 the querying shouldn't matter - its readonly. updating will make things sticky. Lockfile in the cron job seems like a good measure - though maybe a pidfile written to a trusted location would be better - it doesn't get written if you're not running as root (b/c clearly you would only be able to perform queries and those shouldn't bother it) another item on the todo list. Today's more or less a snow day, though, so maybe I'll be able to work on it this afternoon. thanks -sv --=-xdcOJmF25QkM8S/xxfuv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+KBml1Aj3x2mIbMcRAqGNAJ9Fs9B6ADbIY3sLUMN6dGPJehF+YgCfX6/3 UUn+Sba8M72WdYbKaBPODuM= =NaRQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-xdcOJmF25QkM8S/xxfuv--
