a.) yes if you list kernel* in your excludes list it should not update any package starting with "kernel"
b.) /var/log/maillog should have some information about any messages you attempt to send. There could be, literally, 100s of reasons it didn't work. On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:49 AM, O.D. Massimo <[email protected]>wrote: > Sorry for the low level questions but I have two point which I need to > better understand: > SO : SCIENTIFIC LINUX 5.5 > a) yum > In /etc/cron yum.cron correspond to the orginal.yum.cron > so some autoupdates are enabled > in yum.excludes are defined the packages which are not updatet > in mine for example thereis kernel* > so the kernel should be not updatet > > instead an update of the kernel was done! Why? > > b) installation of sendmail > installed latest associated to SL5 > turn on the run of the service at boot (level 3 and 5) > the sendmail deamon is started > the configuration is the standard one > try to send an e-mail results dead.letter? > Forgot somethings? > -- Thanks, Jamie Duncan
