> > 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 ------------------------- > > A much more reliable way to check is > rpm -qa --last |less Thanks for that. I think this clears things up -- it looks like the updates are all manual ones, especially judging from how dates are grouped. So I must apologize to you and the other responders on this thread. The notifications I have seen in logwatch must have been from manual updates that I was unaware of or did not remember. > or simply run > yum update > and see what it thinks needs updated yet. > > If things are reasonably up-to-date I would expect the --last list to > have a tzdata-2011b package listed near the top. Indeed, it's not there yet I see an update available. > One other thing the --last list will revel is WHEN the updates were > applied, if they consistently are at a particular time of the morning > then it may be based on a cron job. The date/times appear to indicate manual interaction from a human. In any case, my question seems to be answered. I will watch logwatch a little longer and make sure this is the case. Thanks to everyone and sorry for the confusion.