yum-updatesd.conf (5) - Linux Manuals

yum-updatesd.conf: Configuration file for yum-updatesd(8).

Command to display yum-updatesd.conf manual in Linux: $ man 5 yum-updatesd.conf

yum-updatesd.conf - Configuration file for yum-updatesd(8).

yum-updatesd uses a configuration file at /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf.

Additional configuration information is read from the main yum.conf (5) configuration file.

There is one section in the yum-updatesd configuration file, main, which defines all of the global configuration options.

The [main] section must exist for yum-updatesd to do anything. It consists of the following options:

run_interval: Number of seconds to wait between checks for available updates.
updaterefresh: Minimum number of seconds between update information refreshes to avoid hitting the server too often.
emit_via: List of ways to emit update notification. Valid values are `email', `dbus' and `syslog'.
do_update: Boolean option to decide whether or not updates should be automatically applied. Defaults to False.
do_download: Boolean option to decide whether or not updates should be automatically downloaded. Defaults to False.
do_download_deps: Boolean option to automatically download dependencies of packages which need updating as well. Defaults to False.

email_to: List of email addresses to send update notification to. Defaults to `root [at] localhost'.
email_from: Email address for update notifications to be from. Defaults to `yum-updatesd [at] localhost'.
smtp_server: SMTP server to use when sending mail, host or a host:port string. Defaults to `localhost:25'.

syslog_facility

What syslog facility should be used. Defaults to `DAEMON'.

syslog_level

Level of syslog messages. Defaults to `WARN'.

/etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf