A DIFFERENT yum/up2date problem...

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 19.01.2004 schrieb Allan Metts um 02:10:
> I am absolutely baffled.  /var/log/yum.log shows all of these packages were 
> updated at 5:26 a.m. this morning.   I was sound asleep at that time -- and 
> unless my dogs have picked up Linux, no one else did it.  My system time is 
> accurately synced to ntp, and crontab is empty for all users.
> 
> I ran "nohup up2date -u" from the command line the day before, and 
> nohup.out showed a failure.  Does up2date include some sort of periodic 
> retry logic?
> 
> If not, the only thing I can think of is that yesterday's process took 12 
> hours to successfully finish the download on a broadband connection, and I 
> looked at the wrong nohup.out to check the results.

The man and the control over his machine ...

You probably have the yum service on (to be checked with "chkconfig
--list yum" or "service yum status") which does an automatic nightly
run.

Alexander


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