On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, P. Larry Nelson wrote:

> 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

What method did you use to do the upgrade?

> 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

Which I assume says to update via yum?

-Connie Sieh
> 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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