[CentOS-devel] pending updates notification on login

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.

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