So, I was planning to stick yum in my cron system when lo and behold - there it is. (I guess the yum rpm install set all that up for me.) But I can't find any documentation on this. The yum.cron is looking for /var/lock/subsys/yum, so I'm guessing I have to "turn it on" but I'm not sure how I'm intended to do that. Once it IS running, I presume that it will log its activity to /var/log/yum.log and I can check there to see what it's been doing while I was asleep. Are there any whitepapers or HOWTOs anywhere that walk through these details? Jefficus