On 06/12/2014 06:11 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 06/12/2014 01:16 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> On 06/12/2014 12:38 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: >>> hi, >>> >>> I'd really like to have something where a user, on login to the vm or >>> machine instance is told 'you have XX pending updates'. the data can >>> come from a yum-plugin writing something somewhere ( so its not a case >>> of running yum on each login ). >>> >>> Who wants to take a stab at writing something for this ? >>> >>> - KB >>> >> For CentOS 6 there are gpk-update-viewer and gpk-update-icon commands. >> >> gpk-update-icon is for noticication there is something to update (orange >> 8-point star), that command can be added to Startup Applications, and >> gpk-update-viewer is what you get when you click on the star. >> >> have you had something else on the mind? Or for CentOS 7 perhaps? >> > mostly looking to target VM's and cloudinstances that have barely enough > to get yum and openssh-server running, so a yum plugin with an output > that sends to motd work work best > Are you referring to something like "update-motd"? That appears to be installed on my Amazon EC2 instances; when I log in, I get a message like: 1 package(s) needed for security, out of 3 available Run "sudo yum update" to apply all updates. The RPM "update-motd" (in Amazon's repo) claims the license is ASL 2.0. I found an old article at: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tech-tip-periodically-update-your-motd-update-motd -Greg