[K12OSN] I miss RHN

[Lewis Holcroft]

Dan,

I thought the yum daemon did that for you.

Lewis

On Aug 20, 2004, at 7:46 PM, Dan Young wrote:

> Taking a page from Larry Wall:
> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris
>
> Laziness:
> I'm tired of ssh'ing to every server to run yum to see if updates are
> available.
>
> Impatience:
> Doing the above takes too much time.
>
> Hubris:
> Assuming anybody would find this useful while simultaneously invoking
> Larry Wall to describe a shell script running a python program. ;-)
>
>
>
> #!/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 Young
> Parkrose School District
>
>
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