On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 07:38:08PM -0400, Johnny wrote:
> 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!"
I know you didn't specifically say you want yum to do this, but...
yum is not going to do this. This is way outside yum's job
description. There are a ton of subtle issues here.
> 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.
Here's something you can do right now. This is quick and dirty, but
it may meet your needs. Put this in a cron job and it will nag you
when you're not running your newest kernel. Note: the grubby stuff
probably needs root, but that doesn't actually DO anything, so you
could remove it.
#### check_kernel_upgrade.sh ##########################################
#!/bin/sh
RUNNING_KERNEL=`uname -r`
NEWEST_INSTALLED_KERNEL=`rpm -q kernel --qf '%{version}-%{release}\n' \
| sort -g | tail -n 1`
DEFAULT_KERNEL_FILE=`/sbin/grubby --default-kernel`
DEFAULT_KERNEL=`rpm -qf $DEFAULT_KERNEL_FILE --qf '%{version}-%{release}\n'`
if [ $RUNNING_KERNEL != $NEWEST_INSTALLED_KERNEL ]; then
echo "Currently running: $RUNNING_KERNEL"
echo "Newest installed: $NEWEST_INSTALLED_KERNEL"
echo "Current default: $DEFAULT_KERNEL"
fi
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-Michael
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Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ECE Department, the University of Arizona 520-626-1619
1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 ECE 524G
