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.