[ale] RHEL6 equivalent for apticron?

[Lightner, Jeff]

I think you missed the point – He was saying yum-updatesd isn’t available in RHEL6 which appears to be true.  I found one site that clearly says this package was removed from RHEL6.






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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 9:46 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] RHEL6 equivalent for apticron?


Yum search update
Updatesd checks automatically and can notify, or auto update based on config.
On Aug 8, 2011 9:20 AM, "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com<mailto:james.sumners at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 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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