On 8/3/2010 12:12 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > JohnS wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 11:30 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: >>> On 8/3/2010 11:27 AM, ken wrote: >>>> 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 > or | mail -s "Yum updates available" <youremail> By default, cron will already email the output. You can set MAILTO at the top of the crontab to control who the emails go to. -- Bowie