Is there anyway to parse the config file *only* for the pid file first, then check for it's existence before doing the other stuff? A dozen hung yum processes running on a server, one of which that sometimes takes 100% of a CPU, is not a pretty thing. Joshua On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:40:14PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 09:59 -0400, Joshua Jensen wrote: > > Oops, sorry to steal this thread. I'll get my own next time. > > > > long and short of it - before yum does the pid check it has to parse the > config file. In order to parse the config file it has to open the rpmdb. > > the rpmdb open is hanging b/c of the other wedged process. > > -sv > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum -- Joshua Jensen joshua@xxxxxxxx "If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?"