Description of problem: yum-updatesd service fails to start when messagebus is disabled even if it is configured to send notifications via e-mail Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-updatesd-3.0-6 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Stop messagebus service 2. Put in /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf emit_via = email 3. Start yum-updatesd service - it will show OK status, but won't be running Additional info: Result of strace: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory) = 86
dbus is also used to communicate and request things from the daemon. You can disable this by setting dbus_listener = no in /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf. To make it a little bit more clear, I'll put the default setting in the file and a comment accordingly.