On 9/3/07, Danny Yee <danny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's not notifications I have problems with. I've never managed to > get yum-updatesd to do anything at all, either on Fedora Core 6 or > Fedora 7, on nearly a dozen different machines. It starts up happily > and logs no problems, but it never downloads or installs any packages. > > Running yum manually, or out of cron, works just fine, so there's no > problem with my yum config. > Get the yum-updatesd from Fedora 8 test version. It will work to do the auto downloads. I'm using it. $ rpm -q yum-updatesd yum-updatesd-0.4-1.fc8 Assuming you turn on the auto updates in the config file. By default, it does not install things. Believe me, this will work. I was one of the complainers here about yum-updatesd for quite a while -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
