email notification of yum updates?

Herbert Gasiorowski gasi3 at web.de
Tue Apr 20 13:24:50 UTC 2004


Jay Daniels wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:29:44PM +0200, Herbert Gasiorowski wrote:
> 
>>Jay Daniels wrote:
>>
>>>How do I setup email notifications that yum update has run and
>>>succeeded or failed?
>>>
>>
>>Remove the "-e 0 -d 0" part from /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron
>>(or change the values to something above 0).
>>
>>And activate yum with "chkconfig --level 345 yum on"
> 
> 
> I have yum on in run levels 3 and 5.  Does this only run yum update or
> does it actually update all packages?  I never seem to see any update
> notice on the RHN up2date applet in gnome.

Level 4 is (nearly?) never used.

> 
> For instance, if my kernel is automatically updated and I'm not
> notified, then what?  I am running an old kernel!

Yes - until you reboot the computer. This is true for glibc too
and maybe for some other packages.

> 
> Is this yum in Service Configuration just the cron script in
> /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron?  or is there an actual yumd?

No, it is only the cron script.

> 
> Read the yum man page and it said -e 0 is good for cron jobs.  How
> would changing the error level get me notifications if the updates
> succeed? It seems like there is more to this than just changing the
> error level in yum.cron such as handling the errors with a redirector
> in the cron job.

cron normally redirects all output to the users mail address, in this
case it is "root" (See /etc/crontab).

-- 
mfg
Herbert Gasiorowski
http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~gasi/





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