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

Tue Aug 3 15:40:55 UTC 2010
JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com>

On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 11:30 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> On 8/3/2010 11:27 AM, ken wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Run 'yum check-update' as a cron job.
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And then | tee it >> out to /var/log/yum/check_update.log

John