[rhn-users] Re: rhnsd daemon update

[nathan r. hruby]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Tsai Li Ming wrote:


> Does rhnsd update the system automatically, similar to doing a up2date -u in 
> a cron? The default rhnsd runs for every 4 hours. Updates were not installed 
> when I started rhnsd and left it running for a day and there's nothing in the 
> /var/log/message except it is running rhn_check. Furthermore, when I ran 
> rhn_check -v as root, there are no outputs.

No, rhnsd and rhn_check simply poll the RHN server and see if there are
any pending actions scheduled that it needs to pick up and run.  If you do
not schedule an update, install, package-list refresh, etc.. through the
RHN website than rhnsd and rhn_check will not do anything when they poll.

-n
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