Alex Finch wrote:
> Two small points:
> 
> 1) I noticed that the yum update had not run on a recenly installed 4.4 
> machine. Turned out that /var/lock/subsys/yum
> did not exist - don't know why, has anyone else had this experience on 4.4?
> 

That happens if you have do a

/etc/init.d/yum stop

or have done a chkconfig and turned yum off.

> 2)  I also spotted a small error in
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron
> 
>        if [ utime -ge 72000]
> 
> should be
> 
>     if [ $utime -ge 72000 ]
> 
> 
>   Alex Finch

Nope ... just double checked on a fresh install, it is correct in that 
is says

if [ $utime -ge 72000 ]

I don't know why your's is wrong.  Do a

   rpm -qa | grep yum-conf
   rpm -V yum-conf
     or
   rpm -V yum-conf-4x

     plus
   /sbin/chkconfig --list yum
   /sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 yum on

Troy

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