Services Configuration Tool problems

[William Hooper]

Jorge Luis Gonzalez said:

> The tool doesn't seem to reflect the state of the underlying files, at
> least for non-xinetd services.  For example, there's a daily cron job 
> installed for yum-update, but the Services Configuration Tool shows yum as
> being disabled for all run levels.

First, the services tool doesn't do anything with cron jobs, so it's not surprising that a cron job doesn't show up.

Second, you picked a bad example.  By default, yum has both a cron job and a "service".  When you enable the "service" it creates a lock file (and that's it).  The cron job then checks for the existance of this lock file and if it exists runs the rest of the script.

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William Hooper