explanation of yum.cron

[Kimmo Koivisto]

On Sunday 14 August 2005 18:56, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> Ok noting happens if /var/lock/subsys/yum does not exist and in
> my installation it did not initially exist so I created it with a touch
> command.
>
There is a chkconfig compatible script ( /etc/init.d/yum ) that creates 
the /var/lock/subsys/yum file. It's disabled by default so you can enable it 
with chkconfig:
#chkconfig yum on

and if you don't wan't to reboot, you can start yum script manually:
#service yum start

Regards
Kimmo Koivisto