On 06/12/2014 02:30 PM, Greg Bailey wrote: > Are you referring to something like "update-motd"? That appears to be > installed on my Amazon EC2 instances; when I log in, I get a message like: > > 1 package(s) needed for security, out of 3 available > Run "sudo yum update" to apply all updates. > > The RPM "update-motd" (in Amazon's repo) claims the license is ASL 2.0. > > I found an old article at: > http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tech-tip-periodically-update-your-motd-update-motd > something like that would / could work - are the sources handy ? -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc