On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 15:50, Joseph Tate wrote:
> I've got a server that is not getting updates unless I manually run yum
> update. This I've traced to my /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron file which says:
> #!/bin/sh
>
> if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/yum ]; then
> /usr/bin/yum -R 10 -e 0 -d 0 -y update yum
> /usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -y update
> fi
>
> The problem is that /var/lock/subsys/yum doesn't exist. How is it
> supposed to be created? Is it supposed to be part of the RPMS? Should
> that test be negated? I'm using yum-2.0.3-1 on a RHL 9 system.
> Manually running the cron script returns immediately. Creating the file
> seems to work, but the lock is removed at some point, and after that yum
> won't run from cron.
Can you show us:
chkconfig --list yum
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Konstantin ("Icon") Riabitsev
Duke University Physics Sysadmin
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