[nzlug] What is dbus_listener?

[Patrick Connolly]

I've been trying to work out what this line in my Fedora 8
/etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf is about?

dbus_listener = yes

What is dbus and dbus_listener?  Anything I can find Googling is a
mention of the same line people have, but I can't find out what it's
meant to do.

What will happen if I change that to no?  I'm not interested in using
updatesd, and would rather update things manually.  I thought I had
yum-updatesd stopped, but it wasn't.  That might explain why updatesd
was trying to do something, but I've no idea what it was trying to do
since I don't know what dbus is.

My main reason for asking is that it's the only thing I can find in
/yum-updatesd.conf that might explain why I got messages like this:

Jun 16 01:02:23 Tui yum-updatesd-helper: error getting update info: failure: repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2 from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
Jun 16 02:02:27 Tui yum-updatesd-helper: error getting update info: failure: repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2 from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.


That wouldn't have bothered me a lot except it seems to have gone on
and on and used up half a gig of download in the space of a few hours
overnight (though I can't see where anything was put).  I noticed in
gkrellm that some downloading was happening, but no uploading.  The
only way to stop it was to block the firewall.  Of course, if I had
more smarts, I would have been able to work out just what sort of
thing was being transported.  Could something more serious be
happening?

Ideas as to where I should be looking would be appreciated.

TIA

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