On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 16:10 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 09:51 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> Santi Saez wrote: > >>> Dear Srs, > >>> > >>> yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 appears that it's not working on freshly > >>> installed CentOS 5.2, using: > >>> > >>> # rpm -qa "yum*" > >>> yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5 > >>> yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 > >>> yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1 > >>> yum-fastestmirror-1.1.10-9.el5.centos > >>> > >>> I see some bugs ([1], [2] and [3]) in the bug tracker, and more info > >>> related to other distros like Fedora, etc.. with the same problem. > >>> > >>> yum-updatesd does not automatically update in CentOS 5.2, is there any > >>> patch for this? anyone using this daemon for Yum? > >>> > >>> This is the configuration file: > >>> > >>> # grep -v "#" /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf > >>> [main] > >>> run_interval = 60 > >>> updaterefresh = 60 > >>> emit_via = email > >>> email_to = santi at example.com > >>> email_from = centos at example.com > >>> do_update = yes > >>> do_download = yes > >>> do_download_deps = yes > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> [1] http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2039 > >>> [2] http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2592 > >>> [3] http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2560 > >> yum-updatesd does not install updates, it tells you they are available. > >> > >> yum-cron (or a batch file you create with a 'yum -y upgrade' ) would be > >> needed to actually upgrade the system. > > ---- > > FWIW Johnny...on Fedora yum-updatesd does indeed automatically install > > updates if configured as above (not the default). > > And it probably SHOULD work in CentOS too ... but it doesn't. > > We will probably look at it at some point ... but yumcron was included > since it is currently broken. ---- I should have noted that I never could get yum-updatesd to automatically update a system until Fedora 8. It never worked in Fedora 7. Craig