id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 98 Unable to specify log location outside of %unixroot Lewis Rosenthal "On this machine, %unixroot is J: Changing log location in yum.conf to systemwide log dir (c:/var/log) produces output from yum such as: {{{ [j:\devel\yumie\yumie_preview7\scripts]yum info clamav Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, remove-with-leaves Traceback (most recent call last): File ""J:\USR\BIN\YUM"", line 29, in yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File ""/@unixroot/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py"", line 254, in user_main errcode = main(args) File ""/@unixroot/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py"", line 88, in main base.getOptionsConfig(args) File ""/@unixroot/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py"", line 191, in getOptionsConfig self.conf File ""/@unixroot/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py"", line 781, i n conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(), File ""/@unixroot/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py"", line 311, i n _getConfig self.doFileLogSetup(self.conf.uid, self.conf.logfile) File ""/@unixroot/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py"", line 331, i n doFileLogSetup logginglevels.setFileLog(uid, logfile) File ""/@unixroot/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/logginglevels.py"", line 1 91, in setFileLog os.makedirs(logdir, mode=0755) File ""/@unixroot/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py"", line 152, in makedirs makedirs(head, mode) File ""/@unixroot/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py"", line 152, in makedirs makedirs(head, mode) File ""/@unixroot/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py"", line 159, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/@unixrootc:' }}} I have not tried relocating the yum cache, but suspect similar difficulty." defect closed minor yum duplicate