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
Thanks for that. I think this clears things up -- it looks like the updates are all manual ones, especially judging from how dates are grouped.
So I must apologize to you and the other responders on this thread. The notifications I have seen in logwatch must have been from manual updates that I was unaware of or did not remember.
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.
Indeed, it's not there yet I see an update available.
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.
The date/times appear to indicate manual interaction from a human. In any case, my question seems to be answered. I will watch logwatch a little longer and make sure this is the case.
Thanks to everyone and sorry for the confusion.