Troy, It seems something went wrong with my installation then. I had problems getting the onboard ethernet to be recognised during the installation. Strange if this yum problem was a side effect of that. I haven't noticed anything else not working as expected. When I tried what you suggest I got: /sbin/chkconfig --list yum service yum supports chkconfig, but is not referenced in any runlevel (run 'chkconfig --add yum') rpm -qa | grep yum-conf yum-conf-4x-1-5.SL.noarch rpm -V yum-conf package yum-conf is not installed rpm -V yum-conf-4x S.5....TC c /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron S.5....T. c /etc/yum.conf S.5....T. c /etc/yum.d/yum.cron.excludes S.5....T. c /etc/yum.repos.d/sl-testing.repo Alex Troy Dawson wrote: > 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 > -- Alex Finch, Research Fellow, Physics Department, Lancaster University. +44 (0) 1524 593618 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/physics/staff/ajf.htm