I recently enabled yum-updatesd on two identical servers and configured it to notify me of updates via e-mail.
This worked fine to start with and it notified me on both machines when the kernel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm update was released last week.
However, today I realised that yum-updatesd was not running and thought it was due to rebooting after the kernel update and that I'd forgotten to set it to start at boot.
But this was not the case, it is set to start, however running '/sbin/service yum-updatesd start' yields:
yum-updatesd dead but subsys locked
I have tried removing /var/lock/subsys/yum-updatesd, but when I restart the service it says [OK] and yum-updatesd doesn't run, but the lock file is re-created.
yum-updatesd --debug does not help either.
Any help or idea's greatly appreciated.
Thanks