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