[LON-CAPA-admin] missing execvp

[Guy Albertelli II]

Hi Guy,

> Didn't loose my httpd yet, but the cron job helped me to find the 
> undead processes that raise my load count. Whenever 
> /usr/local/loncapa/bin/CHECKRPMS --cronmail runs, it leaves these two 
> processes behind:
> www      14566 14562  0 03:10 ?        00:00:00 sh -c /usr/bin/yum 
> check-update >>/tmp/CHECKRPMS.14562
> www      14567 14566  0 03:10 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/python 
> /usr/bin/yum check-update
> 
> while the first one can be killed manually, the second one refuses to 
> die...
> 
> Any suggestions?

I suspect yum is having trouble contacting a Fedora RPM mirror site.

You might want to find a local mirror and modify 
For Fedora 3 /etc/yum.conf 

or

For Fedora 4
the .repo files in
/etc/yum.repos.d/


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guy at albertelli.com   0-7-1-8-27,137