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? -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant