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 -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc