I believe the thinking behind rhnsd is that it periodically checks with the RHN to see
if you've flagged any packages for installation via the web front end, and, if so then
it'll download and apply them. From man rhnsd...
DESCRIPTION
rhnsd is a daemon process that runs in the background and periodically polls
the Red Hat Network to see if there are any queued actions available. If any are
queued, it runs them.
I'd say if you want automatic updates just cron "up2date -u" to run on whichever
regular basis you like.
Will.
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Subject: up2date, can it update w/o my intervention???
> Reading the RHN manual, I keep getting the feeling that the
> reason that rhnsd is running is so that up2date (or something
> similar) can update my machine without my intervention (otherwise
> what is its purpose???). Theu surely dont need it just to send
> me e-mail telling me that updates are available.
>
> Yet after re-reading the documentation, looking at 'my account'
> at rhn, I dont see any way to enable this feature (automagic updates).
>
> Is it possible, or do I just have to run up2date on each machine
> (say) once a week... That gets to be a pain with lots of machines,
> and it isnt going to happen on some of my users machines...
>
> Confused.
>
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