yum-updatesd hasn't ever worked for me -- it neither installs updates nor sends notifications about new ones -- and I've tried it on six different machines. So I'm using the old cron job to keep my systems up to date. My worry is that there are huge numbers of Fedora Core machines out there that simply aren't getting updates as a result of this, and that at some point we're going to have a security catastrophe that will completely discredit the entire system. Danny.