On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 12:49 +1100, Danny Yee wrote: > Kevin H. Hobbs wrote: > > yum-updatesd is definitely leaking memory. I restarted it on Thursday > > and now it's up to 917 MB. > > I have not yet been able to get yum-updatesd to work at all, ever, > on any one of the half dozen or more FC6 machines I look after. > And whenever I look at a Fedora Core 6 system set up by someone else, > I find it's not working there either. > > This could be because I'm at a uni where web access goes through > a proxy, but I've never had any problems getting plain yum to work > through that. > > So far I've been disabling yum-updatesd and replicating the old cron > entry from FC5. But there are plenty of FC6 users around here who > don't know how to do this and don't even realise they're running > without updates... ---- hmmm...seems to work for me # cat /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf [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 and I see that the kernel was automatically updated on January 19th -rw------- 1 root root 1528174 Jan 19 09:18 initrd-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6.img and another sample... # rpm -q file file-4.19-1.fc6 which was released on February 2 and I assure you that I haven't commanded it 'yum update' in any way other than yum-updatesd I do notice that a cups update came out today that hasn't been installed as of yet but I will monitor for it. I also note though that the 'emit_via = syslog' doesn't seem to emit to syslog - at least as far as I can tell and I haven't bothered tracking that down yet. Craig
