Re: configuring yum w/ update notification [was: Re: yum doesn't exit]

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JohnS wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 11:30 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>> On 8/3/2010 11:27 AM, ken wrote:
>> > On 08/03/2010 10:19 AM JohnS wrote:
>> >> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:51 -0400, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> >>> ken wrote:
>> >>>> On 08/03/2010 06:52 AM John Doe wrote:
>> >>>>> ....
>> >>> Yep - if any version of yum is running, no other will. At work, I do
<snip>
>> >>> desktops. And some managers are rather picky as to what servers get
>> >>> updated, and when, esp. their production boxes. So, it's tedious,
>> >>> but I have control - yum runs when I run it, and not otherwise.
<snip>
>> > So is there a way to configure yum and/or yum-updatesd so that I get a
>> > GUI notice that updates are available, but then run the actual update
>> > when I want from the CLI?
>>
>> Run 'yum check-update' as a cron job.
> ---
> And then | tee it >> out to /var/log/yum/check_update.log

or | mail -s "Yum updates available" <youremail>

          mark

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