On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 13:34, Jeff Smith wrote: > 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? /etc/init.d/yum start <- enables the cron job chkconfig yum on <- turns on the above process by default. -sv
