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Re: Yum off after upgrade to 4.8
From:
"P. Larry Nelson" <[log in to unmask]>
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P. Larry Nelson
Date:
Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:48:57 -0600
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Hi Troy,

Troy Dawson wrote:
> Here is the script that yum-conf (not yum) runs on install to turn 
> itself on.
> 
> /sbin/chkconfig --add yum
> /sbin/chkconfig yum on
> /sbin/service yum restart >> /dev/null
> 
> If you had previously turned yum off
>   /sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 yum off
> Then it is going to *stay* off.
> 
> This has been in every yum-conf since SL 4.0, so I'm not quite sure what 
> is happening on your machines Steve.
> 
> Troy

I can't vouch for Steve, but in my case, I've never intentionally
turned yum off.  All our remaining 4.8 systems started out life as 4.6.
The nightly yum always ran.  Then after I upgraded to 4.8, that's when
I started noticing that the systems weren't running the nightly yum.
At the time, I was too busy to worry or care much about it as we started
transitioning to 5.4.  But I just had to rebuild a couple of compute
servers that still need to run 4.8, and being too lazy to download
and burn 4.8 discs, I used my old 4.6 discs and then followed the
upgrade HowTo.  Paid attention to what happened this time - thus my
posting to the list.

- Larry

> Steven Timm wrote:
>> Bug, I think
>> On sl 4.6 and before, yum wasn't listed as a service in
>> chkconfig, now it is.  Got to chkconfig it on manually.
>> Have seen this happen on several machines.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, P. Larry Nelson wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, this is probably a Troy or Connie question, but I've noticed
>>> that after upgrading systems installed with SL4.6 to SL4.8,
>>> following the HowTo instructions on the SL web page, that yum
>>> is turned off.
>>>
>>> [root@cx07 ~]# chkconfig --list yum
>>> yum             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
>>>
>>>
>>> Bug or feature?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> - Larry
>>>
>>
> 
> 


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