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Re: long sleeps with yum/cron
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Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]>
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Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:43:47 +0100
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Randy Merritt wrote:
>  /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron:
> 
> Yum crontab starting
>   Sleeping for 153 minutes
>   No other yum process running.
> ********** Starting ***** errata ***** STARTING ********
>    Creating Config File
> *********START** errata YUM.CONF FILE **START**********
> .  .  .
> 
> Can someone illuminate why yum.cron (or cron itself?) is sleeping for 153 minutes?

In order not to kill servers serving you updates yum cron job
sleeps for a random time (not longer than 180 minutes - see
/etc/cron.daily/yum.cron):

If every  SL user would update at the same time ...
Connie would have to have a real http serving farm at 
scientificlinux.org ;-)

Cheers

Jarek
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