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.

[r...@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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