[CentOS] yum-updatesd no longer working

[Lanny Marcus]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Stewart Williams
<lists at pinkyboots.co.uk> wrote:
> I recently enabled yum-updatesd on two identical servers and configured
> it to notify me of updates via e-mail.
>
> This worked fine to start with and it notified me on both machines when
> the kernel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm update was released last week.
>
> However, today I realised that yum-updatesd was not running and thought
> it was due to rebooting after the kernel update and that I'd forgotten
> to set it to start at boot.

In the NSA guide for hardening RHEL 5, they recommend disabling
yum-updatesd and replacing it with a cron job that calls yum directly.
They do not consider yum-updatesd mature enough for enterprise
servers. This is in Chapter 2, on Page 16.