[Yum] Centos 6, yum-updatesd and syslog

[Orion Poplawski]

On 07/30/2013 07:44 PM, Ian Mortimer wrote:
> Hi
>
> For automatic updates on CentOS 6, I'm using yum-updatesd rebuilt
> from the Fedora 15 src rpm which works fine except I haven't
> found a way to stop syslog messages to the console for
> every update.
>
> With these settings in yum-updatesd.conf:
>
> emit_via = email
> dbus_listener = no
>
> the email is sent but there are also messages to the console like:
>
> Message from syslogd at host at Jul 24 13:32:19 ...
>   �<14>yum[21726]: Updated: thunderbird.x86_64 17.0.7-1.el6.centos
>
> (rsyslog.conf is unmodified CentOS default.)
>
> Does anyone know where these messages are coming from and how to
> stop them being sent to the console?
>
>
> Thanks

This is probably this bug: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845802

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