From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Fedora/1.7.6-1.3.2 Description of problem: If I enable (with "/etc/init.d/yum start") the yum cron (/etc/cron.daily/yum.cron), and then I restart the computer (reboot), the yum cron service is disabled. This is due to the file: /var/lock/subsys/yum The file is used by the cron task to know if the service has been enabled. The file IS DELETED in the reboot, that is equivalent to stop the service: /etc/init.d/yum stop So the yum cron is disabled by the reboot. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.2.0-0.fc3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start the yum service: /etc/init.d/yum start 2. See that /var/lock/subsys/yum has been created. 3. Reboot the computer: reboot 4. See that /var/lock/subsys/yum has been deleted. Actual Results: Yum crom service won't be executed. Expected Results: Yum crom service should keep its state (enabled or disabled) after a reboot. Additional info: Probably all files in /var/lock/subsys are deleted in a reboot. So a solution would be to use other directory to store the file.
Sorry, I forgot the activation of the service: chkconfig yum on Now the file is created every time the computer boots, so the yum cron works.