Yum update Service help

[James Kosin]

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Colin J Thomson wrote:

| Hi all,
|
| I need some help please,
| I found that there is a service for Yum "to auto update" but have been
| struggling to get it to work. I have checked the config, and
| chkconfig shows it as running:
|
| yum             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
|
| Am I right in assuming that it is run as part of cron.daily because I
see a
| file "yum.cron" in my /etc/cron.daily DIR.
| Since I setup this to run and when my cron.daily runs the Yum auto update
| does not work am I missing something here, perhaps another config file
that
| needs changing.
|
| Thanks in advance
|
| Colin
|
Colin,

Tell us the output of
	service yum status

chkconfig only tells you if the service is set to autostart on next boot
up and does not tell us if the service is currently running.

The cron daily items are probably there to parse any log files and
report back via email to root what has been updated or needs updating.
Or if any errors happen along the way.

Thanks,
James Kosin
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