A DIFFERENT yum/up2date problem...
Alexander Dalloz
alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Mon Jan 19 02:06:39 UTC 2004
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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