yum-updatesd -- doesn't seem to do anything

[Kevin H. Hobbs]

On 12/01/2009 07:41 PM, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
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> I've installed yum-updatesd on my server (run level 3) and nothing seems
> to happen. It hasn't reported any updates for a long time, whether on
> F11 or F12.  Yum update works, however.
> 

Snip.

> 
> # automatically install updates
> do_update = no
> # automatically download updates
> do_download = no
> # automatically download deps of updates
> do_download_deps = no
> 

If you want yum-updatesd to actually do the updates you must set all
three of the above to yes.

I also set :

emit_via = syslog
dbus_listener = no

yum-updatesd silently does all updates for me on several machines.

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