>=20 > well it's tagged as config file - but not tagged noreplace > See: > %config %{_sysconfdir}/cron.daily/yum.cron >=20 > it could be tagged (noreplace) but I'm not sure if that makes more or > less sense. >=20 > comments, anyone? by building your own rpm, you can cuild you own yum.cron and yum.conf. = if you install more machines with same configuration, this is the easyer = method as changing files on every machine. so i think it makes sense to = customise files before building rpm as changing after installation.=20 one think that makes me wonder, is the activation of the service. after = installing the rpm, the service is activated but not running, so=20 i changed: /sbin/service yum condrestart >> /dev/null to /sbin/service yum start for me this works. Stephan