Comments on: Getting yum updates by E-mail

By: matty

matty — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:18:05 +0000

Hey Dan,

When I wrote yumnotifier yum-updatesd wasn’t available. Now that it is, I have a postinstall item that updates the email_to and email_from items in /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf. This alleviates the need for me to install my script, and provides the same capabilities. Thanks for your comment!

- Ryan

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:56:17 +0000

I’ve been using the yumnotifier script for awhile, but I just discovered ‘yum-updatesd’ the other day. I’m not an expert here, so I’m just asking – how is this different from what yum-updatesd?

By: Dieda

Dieda — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:40:23 +0000

Thanks this is much better then when I tried it myself ;-).

By: mw

mw — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:10:08 +0000

Great script – much better than my last attempt to do this. I made a small change to ignore kernel updates and only send an email if the return code for yum check-update is not zero:

${YUM} -e0 -d0 check-update –exclude=kernel* > ${WORK}

# If there are updates available, E-mail them
if [ $? -ne "0" ]
then
REPORT=`${MKTEMP} /tmp/yum.report.XXXXXX`
echo “==== The following updates are available for ${HOST} ===” > ${REPORT}
cat ${WORK} >> ${REPORT}
cat ${REPORT} | ${MAIL} -s “Updates available for ${HOST}” ${ADMIN}
fi