Hi Nigel, As a Linux Administrator (self taught, raked over the coals, realtime disaster fixer), you've hit the nail on the head. Though what I would like to see, is that when I log on, I'd like to see a small message asking me if I want to, "Run the new kernel that yum has updated?" With selection buttons such as "Reboot to New Kernel?" "Remind me later?" "Let me finish what I am doing and I'll manually reboot!" The third option will allow me to verify that I have all my data safe, config files backed up, get everyone else off the system, and be ready for any thing that may go wrong on the boot up. I'd like that capability more than anything else, having lost a few configurations in the past. Johnny Nigel Metheringham wrote: >On a good number of my machines I let yum run and update automatically - >on the basis that I would prefer things to be kept up to date and deal >with breakages if they happen rather than rely on me being able to find >time to ensure things are updated. > >This works well, with one exception: kernel updates. >The kernel updates are applied (subject to me not running out of space >in /boot :-) ), however yum does not reboot to the new kernel (thats >fine - I'm not that gung-ho), nor does it notify me that the kernel has >been updated (less fine). > >I am therefore wondering if there should additionally be some form of >reporting for this situation, maybe one of:- > * yum reporting on this (all programs acquire features until they > are able to send and receive email) > * a logwatch report that specifically logs when running kernel is > not the most recent installed (this might irritate people who > have a good reason for doing this) > * a logwatch report that reports on packages changed since ??? > * a logwatch report that reports on packages changed since ??? > with extra kernel flagging feature > >Not sure how well the yum log (which rolls on a size based criteria) >will interwork with logwatch which I presume assumes regular log >rolling? > >I'm quite willing to hack together appropriate scripting if theres a >consensus on the right thing to do. > > Nigel. > >
