When exactly does yum do it's job?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Apr 13 09:05:31 UTC 2005


Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> On 4/13/05, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 13:17 -0500, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
>>
>>>Paul Howarth wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>So the answer to your original question is "roughly sometime between 4am
>>>>and about 6:15am".
>>>
>>>Also, the cron job calls yum with "-e 0" option.  That means if there
>>>were any errors and your system is not updated, you are not going to be
>>>told anything about it...  Removing "-e 0", and changing "-d 0" to "-d
>>>1" might be good idea.  "-d 1" will produce output only if yum was
>>>acutally doing something, so if any packages were actually upgraded,
>>>root (or whoever root is aliased to) will get some kind of report in the
>>>mailbox.
>>
>>You'd get a report about packages installed/updated/removed using yum
>>from logwatch if it wasn't for:
>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140429
>>
> 
> 
> If you make the changes mentioned in the bugzilla, it does work. It's
> been working fine for me for a long time now.

I know; comment #12 about the RPM containing the patch is by me...

Paul.




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