Enable Yum As A Nightly Service
Clint Harshaw
clint at penguinsolutions.org
Wed Mar 3 14:03:34 UTC 2004
Wayne Steenburg wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 06:26, Clint wrote:
>
>>I'm having trouble getting yum to update nightly. I have a check in the
>>box found under Redhat->System Settings->Service->yum, but it's not
>>actually doing the updates, I checked yesterday by doing a manual yum
>>update and seeing the list that were available, but choosing "N" (No) to
>>see if the machine was doing it on its own. I'm checking now, and those
>>same updates are available along with the kudzu update. I'm guessing
>>there is something else that must be done to get yum to carry out the
>>updates automatically each night besides putting a checkmark in that box
>>-- what have I omitted? The current status is:
>>
>>"Nightly yum update is enabled."
>>
>>I found the following URL included a "patch" to the /etc/yum.conf file,
>>but I haven't seen other folks' yum.conf patched in this manner.
>>
>>http://www.muug.mb.ca/fedora-updates.html
>>
>>I also searched Fedoranews.org, but didn't find a solution to this
>>specific problem.
>>
>>Clint
>>--
>>Clint <clint at penguinsolutions.org>
>
>
> That "patch" is just telling yum to use muug.mb.ca as a mirror instead
> of the default redhat site. If you haven't configured yum to use a
> mirror and are using the defautl .conf file, your nightly yum update is
> probably just timing out. Please check out
> http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/
> for instructions.
>
> Wayne
I'm not using the patch (I simply wanted to show that I had done my
homework prior to posting) because I haven't seen anyone else's yum.conf
that uses it. And I am using mirrors -- my yum.conf is basically the
same one found at the artoo site.
The same symptoms are going on at my work machine as well (which I am at
right now). I have yum checked in services, I'm using mirrors, but it's
not doing the updates.
Clint
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