explanation of yum.cron

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 07:18:55PM +0300, Kimmo Koivisto wrote:
> 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
You are correct and I started yum, but the bigger question still
remains what does yum.cron do.
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