[WBEL-users] yum not working ?

[William Hooper]

Jeff Lasman said:
> I hope I haven't missed a simple answer somewhere, but I've just spent
> about two hours reading prior posts to the list, and I can't find the one
> that answers my problem, if there is one.
>
> We're running the latest WBEL 3.  Server only, no desktop stuff
> installed.
>
> We run at runlevel 3.
>
>
> We note there is a symbolic link at /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S97rhnsd
>
>
> But /usr/sbin/rhnsd doesn't seem to be running:

rhnsd immediately exists if you don't have a RHN account (which you don't).

>
> Additionally, we've got a file at /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron with this
> contents:
>
>
> <snip>
> But when i run yum this way:
>
>
> /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron
>
>
> It seems to run forever (hours) until I stop it, and the log file at
> /var/log/yum.log is always of 0 length.

Look at the purpose of the "-R" in yum man page.

You can verify yum is working correctly by just running it.  I suggest
"yum check-update".

-- 
William Hooper