yum update doesn't do anyting
Tom Diehl
tdiehl at rogueind.com
Thu Sep 1 02:25:34 UTC 2005
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I have an FC4 system on which I've installed some rpms from fedora-test.
> I turned on the nightly update yum but it never does anything. I left
> the mirror-style repos settings in there, the only change I made in the
> /etc/yum.repos/* files was to change enabled to 1. I administer 4
> machines that are all about the same hardware and OS, and on one or two
> of them, the updates will be found & installed, but not the others.
> There are no errors in /var/log/*.
>
> How can I troubleshoot this?
Does /var/lock/subsys/yum exist?? If not yum will not run from the daily
cron job. Have a look at /etc/cron.daily/yum and /etc/init.d/yum for details.
Regards,
Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com
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