On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 11:37 PM, Konstantin Olchanski <olcha...@triumf.ca> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:20:13PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> > >> > Use the much better yum-autoupdate from CERN instead: >> > http://www.triumf.info/wiki/DAQwiki/index.php/SLinstall#Enable_automatic_system_updates_.28CentOS7.29 >> >> Sorry, but that thing is a complex nightmare. >> > > > Excuse me? Complex nightmare? What?
[ Innocent bystanders, I may be a bit cranky here. ] The directions include a hard-coded third party kernel and kernel module, which may or may not be a kernel regression in a running system. Doing this is entirely unnecessary for running "a simple script", and the steps do not even include the necessary reboot to activate the new kernel. Having to do this extra work is perhaps not that complex, but it's time and bandwidth and resources better spent elsewhere. The directions and tools are also entirely incompatible with older versions of Scientific Linux, such as SL 6 or the still supported SL 5. They don't provide any *benefit* over, for example, editing /etc/cron.daily/yum-cron to use "tee" and pipe its "yum" commands to a mail command to a particular user or group of users. For example simply setting a "MAILADDRESS" setting in the relevant templates, and editing the yum-cron yum commands as folows: If I need to publish a patch for that, I can and shall. Let me know if it's needed. > It is just a cron job script that runs "yum update" and emails you the result > (with email subject > saying the machine name and success/failure status). You can write > replacement in 5 minutes. Replacing a live, standard upstream kernel for such a small reason is always a bad idea. It's worse when the directions don't even include rebooting, nor apply the extra settings to lock in the desired versions of things. > To use it or not is a choice. Nothing wrong with the tool itself. It's what is effectively a cron script called from systemd. Like trimming your ear hairs with a blender, it can be done, but it's really the wrong tool for the job.