[Yum] /var/lock/subsys/yum doesn't exist

[nathan r. hruby]

"/sbin/service yum start" will touch that file.  "/sbin/chkconfig yum on" 
will ensure that yum is always reeenabled at boot time.

-n

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Joseph Tate wrote:

> I've got a server that is not getting updates unless I manually run yum 
> update.  This I've traced to my /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron file which says:
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/yum ]; then
>         /usr/bin/yum -R 10 -e 0 -d 0 -y update yum
>         /usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -y update
> fi
> 
> The problem is that /var/lock/subsys/yum doesn't exist.  How is it 
> supposed to be created?  Is it supposed to be part of the RPMS?  Should 
> that test be negated?  I'm using yum-2.0.3-1 on a RHL 9 system.  
> Manually running the cron script returns immediately.  Creating the file 
> seems to work, but the lock is removed at some point, and after that yum 
> won't run from cron.
> 
> Joseph
> 
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