[Yum] Cron Problems ...

[Rob Watkin]

Do you have limited bandwidth?


On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 16:56, seth vidal wrote:
> >     Yet another one of my many stupid question ... Again, here in South 
> > Africa ( still tring to setup a proxy for my internal servers ), yum 
> > runs in the daily cron, if I remember correctly ... The problem I am 
> > seeing on busy days, is that yum might fail somewhere and just sit in 
> > memory ... leaving no other yum processor to run ... I normally only 
> > find this out if I am the sys admin or when I tring and run yum myself 
> 
> 
> If yum is failing, it exits, if it is stopping then most likely your
> rpmdb has outstanding locks and yum can't get out of it.
> 
> if you see yum hung up, kill the process then look in /var/lib/rpm
> 
> chances are you have __db files in there, remove them.
> 
> > ... Is there some really clever and neat way to get yum to stop during 
> > office hours, and then again start after hours? I believe this will 
> > really only work to when urlgrabber which yum uses and recover failed 
> > downloads ... Can anybody shead some light on my problem, or should I 
> > just wait until yum 3.0.0 which will even know what I want to install 
> > before I do?
> 
> /etc/init.d/yum off
> that will keep it from running - then just turn it back on - that will
> make it be able to run - hell - just change the time the cron job is run
> - take it out of cron.daily put it in cron.mycronjobs then put an entry
> in /etc/crontab or /etc/cron.d for it.
> 
> > P.S. Just showed a friend yum, and now he thinks Linux is it ... it's 
> > kewl that I was able to download quite a few games to proof my point ... 
> > Double Thanks.
> 
> With no offense to your friend - I think he's easily impressed ;)
> 
> -sv
> 
> 
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