Do you have limited bandwidth? On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 16:56, seth vidal wrote: > > Yet another one of my many stupid question ... Again, here in South > > Africa ( still tring to setup a proxy for my internal servers ), yum > > runs in the daily cron, if I remember correctly ... The problem I am > > seeing on busy days, is that yum might fail somewhere and just sit in > > memory ... leaving no other yum processor to run ... I normally only > > find this out if I am the sys admin or when I tring and run yum myself > > > If yum is failing, it exits, if it is stopping then most likely your > rpmdb has outstanding locks and yum can't get out of it. > > if you see yum hung up, kill the process then look in /var/lib/rpm > > chances are you have __db files in there, remove them. > > > ... Is there some really clever and neat way to get yum to stop during > > office hours, and then again start after hours? I believe this will > > really only work to when urlgrabber which yum uses and recover failed > > downloads ... Can anybody shead some light on my problem, or should I > > just wait until yum 3.0.0 which will even know what I want to install > > before I do? > > /etc/init.d/yum off > that will keep it from running - then just turn it back on - that will > make it be able to run - hell - just change the time the cron job is run > - take it out of cron.daily put it in cron.mycronjobs then put an entry > in /etc/crontab or /etc/cron.d for it. > > > P.S. Just showed a friend yum, and now he thinks Linux is it ... it's > > kewl that I was able to download quite a few games to proof my point ... > > Double Thanks. > > With no offense to your friend - I think he's easily impressed ;) > > -sv > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum -- Rob Watkin <robwatkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
