On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 06:51:24PM -0400, Brett Hall wrote: > 1. Is there a way to generate a log report that aggregates results on a > LAN of machines which had updates to fail? If so, can the results be > exported to a syslog server or email list? You could run something like epylog. But yeah, syslog support would be nice. I've been told that it's basically there but just needs a little work -- I haven't had a chance to look at it, so if you want to, that'd be awesome. > 2. Does YUM do anything to check that the update actually took place as > intended and was completed? For example, automated patching tools check > names, file size, registry (for Windows) etc to verify that the change > actually took place as intended. Sometimes, for example, in Windows, the > registry will be updated even if the file wasn?t, giving a false positive > on the update. This seems like a good job for a yum plug-in. > 3. What would I see in the log if an update failed?say it crashed or was > turned off during the update, or was simply offline at the time. I think currently, "nothing". -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 74 degrees Fahrenheit.
