What is the yum-updatesd service and what is it used for?

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Issue

  • When monitoring system connections, periodically a port 80 connection will open and close attributed to the yumupdatesd service.
  • Want to update the system automatically like Windows Update.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • yum-updatesd

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