[BlueOnyx:10468] Re: Reboot on YUM updates

[Gerald Waugh]

On 05/07/2012 05:09 AM, Gerald Waugh wrote:
> On 05/06/2012 07:53 PM, Dr. Blunt wrote:
>> ...is there a way to know when a YUM is downloaded that
>> a BX reboot is necessary for the changes to take effect?
>> Perhaps at some point when the line says: Complete!
>> it could say: Complete! A reminder a reboot is required...
> 
> The only reason to reboot would be to load a new kernel.
> 
> 
>> ...is there a way to limit the bandwidth during the download
>> it seems the default is the max BW allowed. I have a T1 line
>> and the seems to jump right near the 156Kbps just wondering
>> if there is a throttle command I can give?
> 
> ----------------  From 'man yum.conf' --------------------
> throttle Enable bandwidth throttling for downloads. This option can be
> expressed as a absolute data rate in bytes/sec. An SI prefix (k, M or G)
> may be appended to the bandwidth value (eg. '5.5k' is 5.5 kilobytes/sec,
> '2M' is 2 Megabytes/sec).
> 
> Alternatively, this option can specify the percentage of total bandwidth
> to use (eg. '60%'). In this case the bandwidth option should be used to
> specify the maximum available bandwidth.
> 
> Set to '0' to disable bandwidth throttling. This is the default.
> 
> bandwidth Use to specify the maximum available network bandwidth in
> bytes/second. Used with the throttle option (above). If throttle is a
> percentage and bandwidth is '0' then bandwidth throttling will be
> disabled. If throttle is expressed as a data rate (bytes/sec) then this
> option is ignored. Default is '0' (no bandwidth throttling).
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> So you would need to set bandwidth and throttle.
> these parameters are not in yum.conf, just add them to the end of the
> parameter list in /etc/yum.conf
> 
\Oops you may set only throttle, read above.


-- 
Gerald