On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 11:17 -0500, Dave Frazier wrote: > Just want to confirm my understanding of a couple of points ... > > I have an FC 6 instance where yum update no longer runs. I'm assuming > that this is because FC 6 is now de-supported. Correct. > My FC 7 instance is running as a web server and so is always on. It > seems as if I have to reboot the box to re-initiate the yum update > cycle. Am I missing something here? Why would you have to reboot? Do you get an error message when you run "yum update"? In some cases, yum-updatesd might have a lock in place which makes yum update fail. You can either wait for it to give up the lock or turn off yum-updatesd and run "yum update". /Brian/ -- Brian Long | | . | | | . | | | . ' ' C I S C O _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum