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On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Alec T. Habig <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Todd And Margo Chester writes:
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>> Anyone have a favorite way of displaying when YUM updates
>> are available on SL 6.1?
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> Use yum-cron, and in the /etc/sysconfig control file, tell it to email
> you about updates but not install them by setting the CHECK_ONLY (or
> DOWNLOAD_ONLY, depending on what you want done) flags. By default it
> emails root, but you can change that to someone else in that same file.
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> Note that after installing it you need to
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> chkconfig yum-cron on
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> to actually have it run each night.
For those who do monitoring, there's also a "check_update" script
available for Nagios. It can be handy to have that display tool
popping up with alerts, especially when couplided with naglite3, which
I've gotten fond of.
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