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. --- And then | tee it >> out to /var/log/yum/check_update.log John