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

[ken]

On 08/03/2010 11:30 AM Bowie Bailey wrote:
>  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.
> 

yum-updatesd lights up a GUI notification.  Can 'yum check-update' do this?