> >> Sorry if this is somewhat naive, but I'm a little confused as to what the
> >> criteria is for that which will get upgraded automatically by yum and
what
> >> will not.
> >>
> >> I see in our logwatch messages from time to time that yum upgraded
> >> a bunch of stuff, but I also notice that yum will not upgrade other
> >> packages at all (easy example is clamav, but there are others).
> >>
> >> Can someone explain or point me to where I can read about the
distinction
> >> between what is and is not subjected to automatic upgrade?
> >
> > More info: yum-updatesd is running and I do not have yum-cron.
yum-updatesd
> > does a fine job from what I can tell, but I still cannot understand what
> > criteria it applies to know which packages get upgraded and which do not.
> (?)
> >
> > The yum-updatesd configuration file is ultra-simple, so that doesn't seem to
>be
> > where the update choice/distinction is being made.
> >
> > There seem to be people posting in various places that they prefer to use
> > yum-cron, but I have no problems with yum-updatesd and I suspect yum-cron
> > wouldn't address/answer my question anyway.
> >
> > Help?
>
> Yum-updatesd does not automatically install packages (unless you
> configure it to), it only notifies you of ones that need updating. If
> no one is manually doing it, and you don't have "do_update = yes" in
> /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf, then you have installed something else
> that is performing the updates automatically.
It does look like updates are happening, but it's not clear to me by whom.
do_update is set to "no", but notification is by "dbus", so I assumed that
"dbus" is notifying another process to do the actual updates. Is there a way I
can track that down?
> Are you sure the updates are actually getting installed, and it's not
> just noise in the log from yum-updatesd?
Well, if I can take it at its word, updates *are* happening. Here is a snippet
I clipped out of a logwatch a few months ago:
--------------------- yum Begin ------------------------
Packages Updated:
php-dba - 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386
php - 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386
php-devel - 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386
php-cli - 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386
php-common - 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386
php-gd - 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386
php-pdo - 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386
php-mysql - 5.1.6-27.el5_5.3.i386
---------------------- yum End -------------------------
> P.S. The yum log doesn't have the year in the timestamp, and if it's
> not active it might not get rotated by logrotate. This can cause
> false messages sent from logwatch about packages that were installed
> last year.
Hmm, is there a known fix for this?