On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 17:15 -0400, Bob Hoffman wrote: > Finsihing my server set up.. > Yum-updatesd > > This is on, via the chkconfig and seems to run a lot. > > TO DO: auto update YUM for the computer once a day. > Files: /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf > Extra: send a mail or add to log file > > This is the centos original file and my suggested changes. > If anyone uses this, do you have something similar? > > [main] > # how often to check for new updates (in seconds) > run_interval = 3600 (gonna change to 86400 for 24 hours) > > # how often to allow checking on request (in seconds) > updaterefresh = 600 (leave as is) > > # how to send notifications (valid: dbus, email, syslog) > emit_via = dbus (change to email, defaults to root I believe) > > # should we listen via dbus to give out update information/check for > # new updates > dbus_listener = yes (assume no?) > > # automatically install updates > do_update = no (change to yes) > > # automatically download updates > do_download = no (change to yes) > > # automatically download deps of updates > do_download_deps = no (change to yes) > > > I am not sure about the dbus listener. The documentation, yum wiki, or the > man pages were not telling me anything. ---- yum-updatesd...I never got it to work in Fedora 7 but it does work in Fedora 8. I recall a discussion a few months ago that it didn't actually work in CentOS-5 but perhaps the 5.2 update actually made it work...I simply don't know. below is my configuration of /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf that works on Fedora 8 # cat /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf [main] # how often to check for new updates (in seconds) run_interval = 3600 # how often to allow checking on request (in seconds) updaterefresh = 600 # how to send notifications (valid: dbus, email, syslog) emit_via = syslog # automatically install updates do_update = yes # automatically download updates do_download = yes # automatically download deps of updates do_download_deps = yes (I never tried e-mail notifications) Craig