updates: how to receive warnings on new updates ?
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at iesabroad.org
Wed Nov 16 16:06:38 UTC 2005
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> Subject: updates: how to receive warnings on new updates ?
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> Hello all at Fedora,
>
> I'd like to know if there is a simple way to receive
> notifications (e-mail) about updated packeges that are released.
>
> I'm the administrator of some Fedora servers and I would like
> to keep them updated but I prefer not to have automatic
> updates. So I need to be informed of updates released so that
> I can have my servers ok.
>
> Can I receive e-mails ? Is it possible to configure up2date
> to check for updates and send me e-mail ? any ideas ?
>
>
> Thanks
> jmf
>
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I'm sure there's a more elegant way of doing this but I have cron running this every night:
/usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -y check-update | grep "updates-released\|base"
just grep for whatever repos you use.
-Mike
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