Re: yum.cron for testing & examination

"David L. Parsley" <[email protected]> writes:

...
> Yeah, I found out about the 'read' timeout a few hours later, but
> decided not to rewrite.  The current version looks pretty readable to
> me, and since I use 'sleep', the timeout value is anything sleep
> understands (like 12h).  Do you find the script readable, or should I
> sprinkle some comments?

If it was any longer or more complicated comments might be nice, but
I find it pretty readable as it is.

I wonder whether killing with SIGKILL is a bit harsh.  I don't know
enough about yum to know whether it might have some cleanup it needs
to do.  Maybe a SIGTERM; sleep 2; SIGKILL?

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  Ed L Cashin <[email protected]>