[Yum] yum running multiple times at once

[skvidal at phy.duke.edu (seth vidal)]

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 17:06 -0400, Joshua Jensen wrote:
> 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.

the only way to know the path to the yum.pid file is to find out what
the installroot is.

-sv