On 4/28/09, lhecking at users.sourceforge.net <lhecking at users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > CentOS 5.3 > > New updates available used to be flagged in the (Gnome) desktop > notification > area, but I don't get them any longer. What could be the problem? > > yum-updatesd is set up with the default configuration (dbus), and on the > machines I changed the notification to email, I do indeed receive these > emails. I thought I might have done something that caused me not to receive notifications from PUP or Pirut, after the upgrade from CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 (32 bit)...... I am not getting those notification popups in GNOME either! However, on page 16 of the NSA manual about Hardening RHEL 5, they say that "The yum-updatesd service is not mature enough for an enterprise environment......" and they suggest disabling it and replacing with a "cron job that calls yum directly".