Yum in cron confusion?

[Kam Leo]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:08:59 +0100, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> 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
> 

My apologies Axel.  I certainly had no intention of offending you.  I
use atrpms as a signal for the enabling of the ATrpms repo. I should
have asked the OP if 0check4updates was installed in
/etc/cron.d/cron.daily.  If that was the case he might have solved his
problems by installing updated rpm and yum packages from your repo. 
Unless you have changed dependencies atrpms would have been pulled in
as part of either package.

-- Kam