On 02/25/2013 09:03 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 25.02.2013 14:48, schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
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?
/etc/cron.daily: #!/bin/bash ANG=C; yum -q check-update
I am searching all sorts of combinations to figure out what 'ANG' does. I keep getting results like "Emmanuel C. Yumang M.D" :)
So please enlighten me.
Checking the exit value seems to be important. I did find http://wiki.centos.org/YumCheckOrInstallUpdates which I am studying. And it does not use ANG...