On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 08:36 -0700, Donald Murray, P.Eng. wrote: > On Dec 5, 2007 11:37 AM, Donald Murray, P.Eng. <donaldm314@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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! > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Is there something > I should change in my yum-updatesd.conf? > > dmurray@dmurray:/home/dmurray 0> grep -v "^#" /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf > [main] > run_interval = 3600 > updaterefresh = 600 > emit_via = dbus > dbus_listener = yes > do_update = yes > do_download = yes > do_download_deps = yes > > > I'm considering punting yum-updatesd and using a cron job > instead. until rhel/centos 5.2 comes out that is probably not a bad idea. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
