On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 12:40 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > On 8/15/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > I am disappointed to say that the yum-updatesd still does not update > > > anything. Who does it work for? > > > > > Did you edit /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf and change "do_update = no" > > to "do_update = yes"? > > > > > > > > I can run yum manually and it does see updates. However, the > > > yum-updatesd daemon does not appear to find the updates, or it does > > > not find them. Then it locks up the yum process, as in: > > > > > > # yum update > > > Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 2862. Aborting. > > > > > I think the problem may be in your setup. The default setup does not > > automatically install updates. From the man page: > > > > yum-updatesd provides notification of updates which are available > > to be applied to your system. This notification can be done either > > via syslog, email or over dbus. Configuration is done via the > > yum-updatesd.conf(5) file. > > In the original post, I gave my config, which IS set to auto update. > > > [main] > # how often to check for new updates (in seconds) > run_interval = 3600 > # how often to allow checking on request (in seconds) > updaterefresh = 600 > > # how to send notifications (valid: dbus, email, syslog) > emit_via = syslog > > # automatically install updates > do_update = yes > # automatically download updates > do_download = yes > # automatically download deps of updates > do_download_deps = yes > > > > > > > > > > One way to use it is to have a client running on the desktop that > > pops up and tells you about updates. You then have the option of > > installing them. One program that does this is puplet. (I believe > > Gnome normally starts this when you log in.) > > Not acceptable when managing many computers ---- wholeheartedly agree if we are speaking of F7 - after a few updates in FC6, I got yum-updatesd to work but I have yet to notice any automatic updates installed on my F7 setup but I haven't search bugzilla and I also using my own repositories and have little time to track things down so I haven't said anything. I thus am agreeing with OP (Paul) that on my network, yum-updatesd with all 3 entries changed to 'yes' instead of 'no' that I haven't noticed any update being automatically installed. -- Craig White <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
