yum update doesn't do anyting

[Timothy Murphy]

On Thu 01 Sep 2005 03:52, Paul Johnson wrote:

> What really puzzles me is that, with several identical machines, some
> update and some don't.
>
> I can even manually run /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron and it goes and gets
> the updates.

Are you sure it doesn't run?
I was puzzled that yum.cron did not seem to be running on my desktop
until I noticed that it is delayed by a period of up to 120 minutes
(by "-R 120" in the command).

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