When exactly does yum do it's job?

[Arthur Pemberton]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> 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.
>
I'm glad you all brougth that up. I am afraid of playign with rpms in 
any way that wil ham yum. I was looking for the script in question on my 
system and I just couldn't seem to find them. Where should they be?