From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070718 Fedora/2.0.0.5-1.fc7 Firefox/2.0.0.5 Description of problem: Four different systems, three installed via F7 live CD, one successfully upgraded via yum over the network following meticulous instructions from the wiki; none of these systems has an /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoUpdates talks about updating /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron, but the files doesn't exist. yum-updatesd is running on all these systems, but no automatic updates have ever occurred; all updates have been manually initiated. Regularly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install from F7 live CD or upgrade over the net. 2. Update /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf with "do_update = yes". 3. Enable yum-updates.d 4. Wait forever for updates to occur. 5. Check for /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron. Actual Results: Manually initiated updates Expected Results: Automatically initiated updates Additional info:
yum-cron is not in the default install. Do yum install yum-cron if you want to have it. yum-updatesd has had bugs in Fedora-7, update to the latest version with: yum update yum-updatesd