Yum does not identify itself in /var/log/messages

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Seeing update notifications in /var/log/messages which seem to be coming from yum but no daemon or service is identified after the hostname:
Oct 27 10:00:04 server123 : 4 updates available

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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