On 08/03/2010 11:30 AM 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. > yum-updatesd lights up a GUI notification. Can 'yum check-update' do this?