On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 18:51 -0400, Brett Hall wrote: > A couple questions about Yum's functionality: > 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? not at the moment but it's on the todo list. > 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 wasnt, giving a > false positive on the update. Not really. You can run rpm -Va after yum runs to find out. > 3. What would I see in the log if an update failedsay it crashed or > was turned off during the update, or was simply offline at the time. if the system crashes when anything is going on what generally happens? Nothing gets reported - it's in the nature of a system crash that you cannot get log information from it. -sv
