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 ...
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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