On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 12:18 -0400, ken wrote:
> On 08/03/2010 11:30 AM Bowie Bailey wrote:
> > On 8/3/2010 11:27 AM, ken wrote:
> >> On 08/03/2010 10:19 AM JohnS wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:51 -0400, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>>> ken wrote:
> >>>>> On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote:
> >>>>>> ....
> >>>> Yep - if any version of yum is running, no other will. At work, I do *not*
> >>>> have yum-updatesd turned up - I want to control when and what. Certainly,
> >>>> I don't want to update, say, firefox while folks are using it on their
> >>>> desktops. And some managers are rather picky as to what servers get
> >>>> updated, and when, esp. their production boxes. So, it's tedious, but I
> >>>> have control - yum runs when I run it, and not otherwise.
> >>> ---
> >>> Ahh as long as yum-updated is running as a service regular yum update
> >>> will not run! IE, you killed the yum-updatesd service and that is why
> >>> yum update ran.
> >> So is there a way to configure yum and/or yum-updatesd so that I get a
> >> GUI notice that updates are available, but then run the actual update
> >> when I want from the CLI?
> >
> > Run 'yum check-update' as a cron job.
> >
>
> yum-updatesd lights up a GUI notification. Can 'yum check-update' do this?
---
No, your out of luck there. I'm sure that would not be a hard hack
though.
John
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