On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:52:51AM -0500, Hedemark, Magnus alleged: > Josko Plazonic [mailto:plazonic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] said: > > I would be *completely* happy with syslogging everything rather than > emailing it. That way I could use something like logwatch against my > central syslog server to consolidate package reporting (something like > "Package foo was upgraded 224 times" rather than seeing 224 emails each > saying that the package "foo" was upgraded). > > But if this were accepted as an enhancement, one thing I would ask is to > make it a modular thing. i.e. some people might want to log to syslog, some > to snmp trap, others still to an http post. So rather than hard code the > logging to one form of output, put the hooks there to call an external > function or script. That would give us the most flexibility in figuring out > how to track client package upgrades without having to be "spammed" :) The "hooks" are called stdout. Just make the cronjob do whatever you want. yum ... | whateveryouwant yum update | logger -t yum etc... -- Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator University of Southern California
