Yum update problems - slightly maybe off topic

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 11:34, Seth Shoemaker wrote:
> It seems that when yum updates certain programs (such as mysql) that it
> stops them, to upgrade them, but never starts them back up.  Is this a
> configuration problem, or just something that I need to watch for in the
> future?  The main problem I have with this is that if I set my machines
> to auto update using yum and it stops programs such as mysql that I need
> to have running all of the time, this is a bad thing!
> 

I've had the same problems - but it's not anything in yum. sometimes the
%post in the mysql package doesn't properly restart the daemon.

If you do the same from rpm from the command line you'll see the exact
behavior - yum doesn't change it.

-sv