-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of email builder Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 19:41 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades
It does look like updates are happening, but it's not clear to me by whom. do_update is set to "no", but notification is by "dbus", so I assumed that "dbus" is notifying another process to do the actual updates. Is
there
a way I can track that down?
Are you sure the updates are actually getting installed, and it's
not
just noise in the log from yum-updatesd?
Well, if I can take it at its word, updates *are* happening. Here is
a
snippet I clipped out of a logwatch a few months ago:
--------------------- yum Begin ------------------------
Packages Updated: php-dba - 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 php - 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 php-devel - 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 php-cli - 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 php-common - 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 php-gd - 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 php-pdo - 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386 php-mysql - 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386
---------------------- yum End -------------------------
A much more reliable way to check is rpm -qa --last |less or simply run yum update and see what it thinks needs updated yet.
If things are reasonably up-to-date I would expect the --last list to have a tzdata-2011b package listed near the top. One other thing the --last list will revel is WHEN the updates were applied, if they consistently are at a particular time of the morning then it may be based on a cron job.