On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>> "RWMJ" == Richard W M Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > RWMJ> Newly installed Ubuntu 9.10, when you log in over ssh you may see: > RWMJ> 34 packages can be updated. 10 updates are security updates. > > What a terrible idea. My users, who are welcome to ssh into a number of > machines at my site, have no need to see that information. It's a good idea for one off jobs where the primary user is also the admin, but not so good for shared systems. Personally I think a better plan would be to display that information *only* if the user is flagged as an administrator, group root, wheel, etc. > RWMJ> Actually I was trying to work out how it's implemented. > > Get information, append to /etc/motd. You could parse yum output in a > cron job if you really wanted it. It would almost certainly be better > to mail that information, though, if the admin really wants it. I often > go some time without actually having to ssh into many of my server. > > - J< > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- Richard June Orion Technology Solutions 574.933.1576 http://www.oriontechnologysolutions.com -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
