[K12OSN] I miss RHN

[Jeff Kinz]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 04:46:41PM -0700, Dan Young wrote:
...
> I'm tired of ssh'ing to every server to run yum to see if updates are
> available.
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # Run me in your crontab in the wee hours
>  
> YUM="yum -d 0 -e 0"                  # be quiet
>  
> if $YUM check-update &> /dev/null    # if yum returns zero
> then                                 # then
>     :                                # do nothing
> else                                 # else
>     echo "updates for `hostname`"    # tell me
>     $YUM -C list updates             # what updates are there?
> fi                                   # done


Dan, I just wanted to congratulate you on implementing RHN from scratch
in only 7 lines of shell script! :-)

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Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.