[ale] RHEL6 equivalent for apticron?

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 09:19:01 EDT 2011


I'm looking for an equivalent to apticron[1] for RHEL6. I realize that
I could automate a `yum check-update -q | mail ...` but that is a poor
substitute. Notice that apticron actually gives details in the email
about the available updates (which allows me to set a priority on when
to do the updating). I keep coming across references to
yum-updatesd[2], but that tool doesn't seem to be installed or even
available to be installed:

" # yum provides yum-updatesd
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, product-id, subscription-manager
Updating Red Hat repositories.
rhel-6-server-rpms
                                              | 2.1 kB     00:00
Warning: 3.0.x versions of yum would erroneously match against filenames.
 You can use "*/yum-updatesd" and/or "*bin/yum-updatesd" to get that behaviour
No Matches found"

So, RHEL faithfuls, any suggestions?

[1] -- http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/491
[2] -- http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/red-hat-centos-fedora-send-package-update-notification-via-email/

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