On 21/07/10 14:50, przemolicc@poczta.fm wrote:

Hello,

we have installed non-repository based software on our centos servers (e.g. vmware tools). Each time we do 'yum update' we have to run several scripts to check if these software works after update. Sometimes we forget ... It it possible to configure any sort of triggers which will run automatically after 'yum update' ? I'd like to avoid writing shell wrappers for yum and looking for yum-way solution ;-)

Regards Przemyslaw Bak (przemol)

How about using RPM's %triggerin scriptlet?

http://www.rpm.org/api/4.4.2.2/triggers.html http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-rpm2/

For example, you could create a dummy rpm package containing a %triggerin scriptlet to run your scripts in the event that package foo gets installed/updated.

Lets take vmware as an example (although it's probably not a very good example). I assume you need to run vmware-config.pl after each kernel update and you sometime forget to do that. You could build and install a dummy package that contains a %triggerin scriptlet that triggers on installation of the package kernel. In an ideal world the %triggerin scriptlet would simply run /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl, but as that script requires user interaction, you'd probably have to call it with the --default flag to provide the default answers to all questions. Alternatively, you might decide not to run the vmware-config.pl script automatically but rather send an email to root or something else to remind you to run it.

Is that the type of solution you're looking for?