[CentOS-devel] pending updates notification on login

On 06/12/2014 09:22 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> this is just a super complex solution to a problem that is far simpler
>> than it seems.
>>
>> if a yum-plugin is able to drop the number somewhere, an echo in .skel
>> would be all the 'UI' we need, and if its there for the default user on
>> instance bringup, the skel should get copied over ( and then the user
>> can do whatever they please ) to all new users as well.
>>
>> would that be all we need here ?
> 
> Minor warning: if you are using backuppc to back up a host with rsync
> over ssh, it will fail if there is any output before the rsync
> startup.   Native rsync will ignore it, but not the backuppc server's
> rsync-in-perl implementation.   So, randomly adding messages at login
> may have side effects.
> 

does it fail, with enough context to figure out what happened ? if so,
we then just need to make it easy to turn off.


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