[CentOS-devel] pending updates notification on login

[Trevor Hemsley]

On 12/06/14 15:02, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 06/12/2014 02:30 PM, Greg Bailey wrote:
>> Are you referring to something like "update-motd"?  That appears to be
>> installed on my Amazon EC2 instances; when I log in, I get a message like:
>>
>> 1 package(s) needed for security, out of 3 available
>> Run "sudo yum update" to apply all updates.
>>
>> The RPM "update-motd" (in Amazon's repo) claims the license is ASL 2.0.
>>
>> I found an old article at:
>> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tech-tip-periodically-update-your-motd-update-motd
>>
> something like that would / could work - are the sources handy ?
>
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/update-motd_2.0.orig.tar.gz

Seems to be the last one from before they butchered pam_motd, tarball
contains several things, one update-motd written in python and the
original update-motd-orig.sh

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