[CentOS-devel] pending updates notification on login
Pat Riehecky
riehecky at fnal.govThu Jun 12 13:30:42 UTC 2014
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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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel 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 -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux developer http://www.scientificlinux.org/
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