Were my expectations too high?
Support, what RHEL service is logging this? rhnsd? yum-updatesd? It should show the process name in the syslog output. Please fix? Oct 27 10:00:04 rcf-monitor : 4 updates available
Response:
I think that rfc-monitor is likely a third-party service of some sort. I haven’t been able to find any mention of it internally or any package or file with that name on RHN. So I don’t think that’s yum or rhnsd talking.
Support, Syslog logs the hostname. rcf-monitor is the hostname. Proper syslogging looks like this, where you will note "ntpd" as the service responsible for generating the syslog line. Nov 1 03:52:51 rcf-monitor ntpd[27018]: message here...