On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 01:43 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:30:44 -0500: > > > According to /sbin/new-kernel-pkg .. the file that actually gets updated on x86 > > and x86_64 systems is /boot/grub/grub.conf > > And as I already mentioned in my first posting this file *got* touched. The last > modified date got changed, but not the file itself. Comparing it with a file on > another machine doesn't reveaL any obvious differences. Specifically, the default > entry that should get used as a template is exactly the same, even with the tabs, > only the root path is different. > Comparing the /boot directories I recognize now that I have 3 kernels left on a > machine where it worked, but 4 on the machine where grub.conf didn't get updated. > This is obviously not set in /etc/sysconfig/kernel. Is this a yum setting? I > remember there is configuration how many kernels to keep, but I can't find it. /etc/yum.conf The installonlypkgs and installonly_limit keywords. The first, according to man yum.conf, defaults to kernel, kernel-smp, kernel-bigmem, kernel-enterprise, kernel-debug, kernel-unsupported and the latter to 3. > > Kai > -- Bill