I have a couple of CentOS 5.1 boxes, mostly i386, but a couple x86_64, some real, some virtual.

On all of them, I have yum-updatesd configured to emit via email to root. Here is a sample yum-updatesd.conf from one of them:

[main] # how often to check for new updates (in seconds) run_interval = 14400 # how often to allow checking on request (in seconds) updaterefresh = 600

# how to send notifications (valid: dbus, email, syslog) emit_via = email email_from = root@FQDN (the real server FQDN is in the file) # should we listen via dbus to give out update information/check for # new updates dbus_listener = yes

# automatically install updates do_update = no # automatically download updates do_download = no # automatically download deps of updates do_download_deps = no

None of the servers notified me of the batch of updates that came out this weekend. Running 'service yum-updatesd status' on each of them showed it as running, yet a 'yum update' showed the available updates. I tried running yum-updatesd manually on each, and after loading the plugins (installonlyn and priorities) it appears to hang or pause but no messages were generated either on console, /var/log/messages or email.

Any idea what gives?

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