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