[CentOS] configuring yum w/ update notification [was: Re: yum doesn't exit]

[Bowie Bailey]

 On 8/3/2010 11:27 AM, ken wrote:
> On 08/03/2010 10:19 AM JohnS wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:51 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>> ken wrote:
>>>> On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote:
>>>>> ....
>>> Yep - if any version of yum is running, no other will. At work, I do *not*
>>> have yum-updatesd turned up - I want to control when and what. Certainly,
>>> I don't want to update, say, firefox while folks are using it on their
>>> desktops. And some managers are rather picky as to what servers get
>>> updated, and when, esp. their production boxes. So, it's tedious, but I
>>> have control - yum runs when I run it, and not otherwise.
>> ---
>> Ahh as long as yum-updated is running as a service regular yum update
>> will not run!  IE, you killed the yum-updatesd service and that is why
>> yum update ran.
> So is there a way to configure yum and/or yum-updatesd so that I get a
> GUI notice that updates are available, but then run the actual update
> when I want from the CLI?

Run 'yum check-update' as a cron job.

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Bowie