[CentOS] configuring yum w/ update notification [was: Re: yum doesn't exit]

Tue Aug 3 15:27:17 UTC 2010
ken <gebser at mousecar.com>

On 08/03/2010 10:19 AM JohnS wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:51 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> ken wrote:
>>> On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote:
>>>> ....
>> Yep - if any version of yum is running, no other will. At work, I do *not*
>> have yum-updatesd turned up - I want to control when and what. Certainly,
>> I don't want to update, say, firefox while folks are using it on their
>> desktops. And some managers are rather picky as to what servers get
>> updated, and when, esp. their production boxes. So, it's tedious, but I
>> have control - yum runs when I run it, and not otherwise.
> ---
> Ahh as long as yum-updated is running as a service regular yum update
> will not run!  IE, you killed the yum-updatesd service and that is why
> yum update ran.

So is there a way to configure yum and/or yum-updatesd so that I get a
GUI notice that updates are available, but then run the actual update
when I want from the CLI?