RE: [K12OSN] yum.cron question

[Henry Hartley <henryhartley westat com>]

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Calvin Dodge
>> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 12:03 PM
>> 
>> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:04:59AM -0500, Henry Hartley wrote:
>> > In /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron, I have the following:
>> > 
>> That lock isn't set by yum.  It's set by "/etc/init.d/yum start",
>> since it's a flag to tell yum "do updates", rather than a lock telling
>> yum "another instance is running".
>> 
>> Look at the first 25 lines of /etc/init.d/yum, and all will become
>> clear.

Ah, yes, now I see.

>> Meanwhile, yum may have hung. Do a "ps auxww|grep yum". If you see a
>> yum process there (usually starting with "/usr/bin/python") kill it,
>> then try running yum manually to catch up with the latest security
>> updates.

The problem was that the there was no symlink in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d to the yum
script.  Without that, there was no /var/lock/subsys/yum and the cron job
just did nothing (as it was intended).  I suppose that's a reasonable
default.  I manually ran "yum update" to get caught up, ran "/etc/init.d/yum
start" and created a S98yum symlink.  Thanks for your time.

-- 
Henry