On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote: > >> if a yum-plugin is able to drop the number somewhere, an echo in .skel >> would be all the 'UI' we need, and if its there for the default user on >> instance bringup, the skel should get copied over ( and then the user >> can do whatever they please ) to all new users as well. > > > So a cron job which does a > > yum list updates | awk 'BEGIN{x=0}; {if ($NF~'update') {x=x+1}}; END{print > "Your system is behind " x " updates."}' > /etc/centos-updates > Your system is behind 37 updates. > > with it all being in python or something. Then in .bashrc a bit of 'if tty > && SEENALREADY then cat /etc/centos-updates; SEENALREADY=1; fi' type logic > a) shouldn't this have a concept of security-related vs other updates? b) maybe use .bash_profile vs. .bashrc? c) should it handle multiple users and notify each once? c) isn't there something gnome-ish that already does this with a gui? Can the non-gui version share the check and pending value? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com