I wrote: > I'll give it one more go -- I've commented out the current cron job > on my work desktop and done a > service yum-updatesd start > and I'll see what happens. Well, after four days, no updates have been installed (and there twenty coming down now, when I run yum by hand) *and* yum-updatesd is leaking memory. USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 5560 0.0 35.6 613444 368852 pts/11 S Feb08 1:41 /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/yum-updatesd danny 15641 0.6 12.3 324908 127980 pts/10 Sl Feb09 29:54 /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.9/firefox-bin So not only doesn't it work, but it eats all my memory. Danny.