Back in the old days, when periodic yum updates where a cron-job, I was able to issue 'yum install ...' or 'yum update ...' commands with impunity. I'm running CentOS 5.1 and seeing the following: [root@dmurray ~]# yum install perl-Date-Manip Loading "installonlyn" plugin Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running. Aborting. [root@dmurray ~]# echo $( cat /var/run/yum.pid ) 16744 [root@dmurray ~]# service yum-updatesd status yum-updatesd (pid 16744) is running... [root@dmurray ~]# rpm -q yum yum-updatesd yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5 yum-updatesd-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5 [root@dmurray ~]# If I merely _restart_ yum-updatesd, I can then immediately do a 'yum ...' command as desired. What's the idiomatic way to update or install via yum, while yum-updatesd is running? Thanks! _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
