I read somewhere, that one of the issues was choking on sending emails..due to sending to nobody account. I guess I will have to wait and look for errors. I do know that it was always on and had never told me there was an update available when logging in as root. > > 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 > os