On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, 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

It could be that there was a non-standard /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron
on my machines that wasn't looking at /var/lock/subsys/yum to
see whether the yum service was started or not, and when I
did the yum upgrade to 4.7 I got the standard one again which
started looking and saw that the service was chkconfigged off.
But in any case I saw that it was off and I never remember chkconfigging
it off.

Steve timm


>
> 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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