[CentOS] running yum update on remote servers

James B. Byrne byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca
Tue Feb 26 16:51:34 UTC 2013


On Mon, February 25, 2013 09:03, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> On 02/25/2013 02:48 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> I have read a couple old threads here on updates for servers, and I
>> am
>> looking for some mechanics to getting the actual updates done.  I
>> don't
>> want automatic updates; I want to control when and what gets
>> updated.
>>
>> First I have to determine that a particular server needs updates.  I
>> suppose a daily script that would run "yum check-updates' and emails
>> me
>> the results could work, but then I would only want the email IF
>> there
>> was something to update, at my limited use of this option does not
>> show
>> anything to trigger a notify on changes.  Does anyone know of a
>> script
>> that would do this?
>
In crontab:

MAILTO=whomever at whatever
MAILFROM=this_system at whatever
JOBNAME="Check for updates and report if found" ;  /usr/bin/yum
check-update -q

The -q suppresses output unless there is something to report.  Cron
handles the rest.


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