On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 03:45 -0800, John Doe wrote: > From: David McGuffey <davidmcguffey at verizon.net> > > Have been running 5.4 x86_64 for a couple of months now. Every once in > > a while, I would get a notice that updates were available. > > It appears that about 3 weeks ago, yum stopped notifying me of updates. > > Over that time, I've manually done a 'yum update' from a command line, > > with an output that there are no updates. > > I know this cannot be true, because I watch the 'centOS-announce Digest' > > messages come through and see that there are updates for my > > installation. > > Did you check that those digest takled about a Centos 5 version of an application specificaly installed on your server...? > The latests updates I have in my local repository are from November the 28th... > kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-25.el5.centos.1.x86_64.rpm > kdelibs-devel-3.5.4-25.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm > kdelibs-3.5.4-25.el5.centos.1.x86_64.rpm > kdelibs-3.5.4-25.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm > kdelibs-apidocs-3.5.4-25.el5.centos.1.x86_64.rpm > kexec-tools-1.102pre-77.el5.3.x86_64.rpm > system-config-lvm-1.1.5-1.0.el5_4.1.noarch.rpm > openswan-doc-2.6.21-5.el5_4.1.x86_64.rpm > openswan-2.6.21-5.el5_4.1.x86_64.rpm > xterm-215-8.el5_4.1.x86_64.rpm > metacity-2.16.0-12.el5_4.1.x86_64.rpm > metacity-2.16.0-12.el5_4.1.i386.rpm > Here is what my logs show for the last three updates that ran successfully: Nov 14 10:02:13 Updated: 1:libvorbis-1.1.2-3.el5_4.4.x86_64 Nov 14 10:02:13 Installed: libmpeg2-0.5.1-2.el5.rf.x86_64 Nov 14 10:02:14 Installed: libmpeg2-utils-0.5.1-2.el5.rf.x86_64 Nov 14 10:02:17 Updated: httpd-2.2.3-31.el5.centos.2.x86_64 Nov 14 10:02:17 Updated: dbus-python-0.70-9.el5_4.x86_64 Nov 14 10:02:18 Updated: 1:libvorbis-1.1.2-3.el5_4.4.i386 Nov 14 10:02:19 Updated: 1:libvorbis-devel-1.1.2-3.el5_4.4.i386 Nov 14 10:02:19 Updated: 1:libvorbis-devel-1.1.2-3.el5_4.4.x86_64 Nov 14 10:02:19 Erased: mpeg2dec Nov 17 21:26:08 Installed: aide-0.13.1-4.el5.x86_64 Nov 24 22:04:43 Updated: 1:cups-libs-1.3.7-11.el5_4.4.x86_64 Nov 24 22:04:44 Updated: 1:cups-libs-1.3.7-11.el5_4.4.i386 Nov 24 22:04:52 Updated: 1:cups-1.3.7-11.el5_4.4.x86_64 Nov 27 08:59:17 Installed: twolame-0.3.12-1.el5.rf.x86_64 Nov 27 08:59:18 Updated: gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-1.el5.rf.x86_64 Nov 27 08:59:18 Updated: gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64 Nov 28 08:35:38 Updated: metacity-2.16.0-12.el5_4.1.x86_64 Nov 28 08:35:38 Updated: xterm-215-8.el5_4.1.x86_64 Nov 28 08:35:39 Updated: kexec-tools-1.102pre-77.el5.3.x86_64 Nov 28 08:35:41 Updated: system-config-lvm-1.1.5-1.0.el5_4.1.noarch Nov 28 08:35:47 Updated: metacity-2.16.0-12.el5_4.1.i386 So...maybe I'm just an IA guy with a worrying problem. I'm used to my Windoze boxes updating nearly every time I boot them. I'm also used to Fedora 10 and 11 which seem to have updates every two or three days. DaveM