Enable Yum As A Nightly Service

[Clint Harshaw]

Wayne Steenburg wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 06:26, Clint wrote:
> 
>>I'm having trouble getting yum to update nightly. I have a check in the 
>>box found under Redhat->System Settings->Service->yum, but it's not 
>>actually doing the updates, I checked yesterday by doing a manual yum 
>>update and seeing the list that were available, but choosing "N" (No) to 
>>see if the machine was doing it on its own. I'm checking now, and those 
>>same updates are available along with the kudzu update. I'm guessing 
>>there is something else that must be done to get yum to carry out the 
>>updates automatically each night besides putting a checkmark in that box 
>>-- what have I omitted? The current status is:
>>
>>"Nightly yum update is enabled."
>>
>>I found the following URL included a "patch" to the /etc/yum.conf file, 
>>but I haven't seen other folks' yum.conf patched in this manner.
>>
>>http://www.muug.mb.ca/fedora-updates.html
>>
>>I also searched Fedoranews.org, but didn't find a solution to this 
>>specific problem.
>>
>>Clint
>>-- 
>>Clint <clint at penguinsolutions.org>
> 
> 
> That "patch" is just telling yum to use  muug.mb.ca as a mirror instead
> of the default redhat site.  If you haven't configured yum to use a
> mirror and are using the defautl .conf file, your nightly yum update is
> probably just timing out. Please check out
> http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/
> for instructions.
> 
> Wayne

I'm not using the patch (I simply wanted to show that I had done my 
homework prior to posting) because I haven't seen anyone else's yum.conf 
that uses it. And I am using mirrors -- my yum.conf is basically the 
same one found at the artoo site.

The same symptoms are going on at my work machine as well (which I am at 
right now). I have yum checked in services, I'm using mirrors, but it's 
not doing the updates.

Clint