[CentOS-devel] pending updates notification on login

[Pat Riehecky]

On 06/12/2014 08:28 AM, Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> On 12/06/14 14:11, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> On 06/12/2014 01:16 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>>> On 06/12/2014 12:38 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>>> hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'd really like to have something where a user, on login to the vm or
>>>> machine instance is told 'you have XX pending updates'. the data can
>>>> come from a yum-plugin writing something somewhere ( so its not a case
>>>> of running yum on each login ).
>>>>
>>>> Who wants to take a stab at writing something for this ?
>>>>
>>>> - KB
>>>>
>>> For CentOS 6 there are gpk-update-viewer and gpk-update-icon commands.
>>>
>>> gpk-update-icon is for noticication there is something to update (orange
>>> 8-point star), that command can be added to Startup Applications, and
>>> gpk-update-viewer is what you get when you click on the star.
>>>
>>> have you had something else on the mind? Or for CentOS 7 perhaps?
>>>
>> mostly looking to target VM's and cloudinstances that have barely enough
>> to get yum and openssh-server running, so a yum plugin with an output
>> that sends to motd work work best
>>
> But that needs thought about how to not overwrite user customised motd
> files. Ubuntu (yeah, I know) have a /etc/update-motd.d directory which
> writes the motd from the component scripts in that directory but a 5
> minute search didn't make it easay for me to find out how it gets invoked.
>
> T
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I used to admin a few of those, so I know where to look:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UpdateNotifier
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=update-notifier

Pat

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