what's running check4updates?

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Mon Dec 18 23:31:27 UTC 2006


On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:14:20AM +0100, Colin Brace wrote:
> On 12/18/06, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> 
> >Check /etc/cron.* and see if the job is in there somewhere.  I seem to
> >recall smart doing something like that.
> 
> Hmmm, I think I found the culprit:
> 
> Dec  5  2005       0check4updates
> 
> $ rpm -qf /etc/cron.daily/0check4updates
> atrpms-67-2.at
> 
> $ rpm -qi atrpms
> 
> [...]
> This package contains auxilary tools and files for atrpms packages. It
> contains
> 
> daily update tools.
> [...]
> 
> As seems to happen regularly with AT RPMs, it is broken.,

Broken your head is my young Skywalker. ;)

If you check it it is just a read-only invocation of yum (or apt/smart
if you have these installed). So if something seems like broken it is
not this script's fault, it is just revealing the breakage.

> at least under FC6. So...

Your true bug is probably

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213963

Don't shoot the messenger ...

> # sudo rpm -e atrpms
> 
> I am also removing smart; although it faster than yum it isn't as reliable.
> 
> Thanks...

You're welcome ...
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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