Re: [Centos] confession

-- Matt Shields http://masnetworks.biz/ http://www.caosity.org/ On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 07:48:03 -0500, Ryan Lane ryan@rel.dyndns.org wrote: > Hey all, > > Since we are on the yum topic...I have a little shell script that I put > in /etc/cron.daily/, that checks for updates and emails root if updates > are available. Otherwise, if no updates are available, it is silent. > Here it is: > > ######################## > #!/bin/sh > > PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin > > yum check-update >>/dev/null > STATUS=$? > > if [ "$STATUS" -eq 100 ]; then > echo "CentOS RPM updates are available" | mail -s "Updates > Available" root > fi > ######################### > > If you want it to actually email your personal email address, either > change "root" to your email address, or better yet -- set up > /etc/aliases to forward root's email to your personall address. If you > do that be sure to run newaliases when you are done editing that file. > > -Ryan > > > > Matt Shields wrote: > > Here are a few starters commands, these are the most common. > > > > yum check-update (check to see if any packages need updating) > > > > yum update (updates any/all packages that need it) > > yum update packagename1 packagename2 (only update packagename1 & 2) > > > > yum install packagename1 (installs packagename) > > yum install packagename (same as above but does not prompt you for confirmation) > > > > yum list available | grep -i packagename (checks to see if > > packagename is available at yum server) > > > > yum search packagename (useful if you're not sure the name of the > > package, ie. httpd vs apache, RedHat names the Apache package httpd) > > > > yum info packagename (similar to rpm -qi, give you info on packagename) > > > > yum upgrade (I've only used this once, upgrading a test system running > > RHEL 3ES to CentOS, seems like if you point your Yum conf to a > > different distro's yum repo it will upgrade to that version, probably > > also useful for upgrade from CentOS2 to CentOS3) > > > > For install, update, and upgrade, you can pass it the -y variable and > > it won't prompt you to confirm your actions. You can also customize > > your yum.conf to exclude certain packages from update/upgrade like the > > kernel. You can also specify that some packages(again kernel) only > > get installed and not upgraded. > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@caosity.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >