Yum in cron confusion?

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:45:01AM -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 17:19:42 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> > William John Murray wrote:
> > >   Hello FC3 users,
> > >         I am confused by yum in cron, it doesn't seem to work for me.
> > >
> > >   If I "/sbin/chkconfig --list yum" I see:
> > > yum             0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> > > which looks good.  There is a file '/etc/cron.daily/yum.cron' (which if
> > > I run it interactively seems to update yum.)
> > >
> > > /var/log/cron was run at 4am, but there is no sign of it having done
> > > anything at all. Certainly my system was not updated, but where should
> > > it leave any error messages? I can add debug by hand of course, but it
> > > is a very slow turnaround, and surely there must be a log file
> > > somewhere?
> > 
> > If you change the "-R 10" and "-R 120" options in
> > /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron to "-R 1", the script will run much more quickly.
> > 
> > Yum should log packages installed and updated in /var/log/yum.log
> > 
> > If you run "yum update" manually up to the point where it says "is the
> > OK?" (you can say "no" whilst experimenting), does it complain about any
> > missing dependencies?
> > 
> > >  I found a top about timing on: http://aaltonen.us/archive/2004/10/
> > > which requires a file /etc/cron.daily/yum which I do not have. Is
> > > my installation defective?
> > 
> > I doubt it; maybe the /etc/cron.daily/yum was a typo.
> > 
> > Paul.
> > 
> 
> Do a "rpm -q atrpms" to verify the cron job was installed as part of
> the atrpms package.  If it was you might try reinstalling the package
> from the ATrpms repo.

Please Kam, that reply is totally useless (_you_ should be verifying
_before_ posting), no need to show your love for ATrpms every second
post you make ;)

Ceterum censeo ATrpmsa culpa esse.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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