On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 12:07:00 -0600 Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> wrote: > On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 15:32:32 +0100 > Gabriele Pohl wrote: > > > As written in my other mail, the intention is > > to get triggered when security updates are pending. > > why not set up something to watch the centos-announce list, > parse the subject lines for "Security", and then > do whatever you need to do after that. because I want the alert for my individual machines. So the proposed method is no solution for an automagical trigger :) As said in my earlier mail I use Munin for system monitoring and want the raven to croak when a node has pending security updates: http://gallery.munin-monitoring.org/distro/plugins/node.d.linux/yum.html But thanks for sharing your idea ~ Cheers, Gabriele