Yum update Service help

Ed Gurski ed at gurski.com
Wed Jun 23 15:47:16 UTC 2004



> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:58:34 +0100
> From: Colin J Thomson <colin at g6avk.demon.co.uk>
> Subject: Yum update Service help
> To: "fedora-list" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> 
> 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
>  
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> 
> 
Did you make sure that yum is running as a service:

service yum status
Nightly yum update is enabled.


Ed





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