[CentOS-devel] pending updates notification on login

On 12/06/14 14:30, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> 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
>

I checked further and older ubuntu releases used to use update-motd but
they've now modified pam_motd to invoke the scripts in
/etc/update-motd.d on login instead. I checked my RHEL7rc VM and those
modifications are not present there.

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