Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd no longer working

2009-05-16 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Stewart Williams wrote: > I recently enabled yum-updatesd on two identical servers and configured > it to notify me of updates via e-mail. > > This worked fine to start with and it notified me on both machines when > the kernel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm update

[CentOS] yum-updatesd no longer working

2009-05-15 Thread Stewart Williams
I recently enabled yum-updatesd on two identical servers and configured it to notify me of updates via e-mail. This worked fine to start with and it notified me on both machines when the kernel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm update was released last week. However, today I realised that yum-update

Re: [CentOS] Yum-updatesd version in reports?

2009-01-09 Thread partha chowdhury
Amos Shapira wrote: > But I don't see anywhere in its config or command line options a way to > find which package version was replaced by which. > this is just my guess but as yum-updatesd uses yum so the log should be in the logfile directed by yum.conf namely /var/log/yum.log. _

[CentOS] Yum-updatesd version in reports?

2009-01-09 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I've just startted configuring yum-updatesd on all our servers to install updates automatically and it works great. But I don't see anywhere in its config or command line options a way to find which package version was replaced by which. Is this achieveable in any way or should I resort to

Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd or similar for CentOS 4

2008-12-12 Thread Alexander Farber
Thank you all, I'll go with yum service On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Barry Brimer wrote: > chkconfig yum on > service yum start ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd or similar for CentOS 4

2008-12-11 Thread
Alexander Farber napsal(a): > However we have few machines running CentOS 4.7 > which we can't upgrade to 5 (because of Oracle 9 etc.) > > Is there some similar service available? > > Or has anybody experience in putting "yum -y update" > into crontab for CentOS 4? Any good advices? > Hi Alexa

Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd or similar for CentOS 4

2008-12-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> Barry Brimer wrote: >>> chkconfig yum on >>> service yum start >> yum-cron ? > > yum-cron is available for CentOS-4 ??? rpm -ql yum | grep cron -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ GnuPG Public Key : http://www

Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd or similar for CentOS 4

2008-12-11 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 14:24 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > Barry Brimer wrote: > >> chkconfig yum on > >> service yum start > > > > yum-cron ? > > yum-cron is available for CentOS-4 ??? Just run a yum available for all my repos. No yum-cron

Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd or similar for CentOS 4

2008-12-11 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Barry Brimer wrote: >> chkconfig yum on >> service yum start > > yum-cron ? yum-cron is available for CentOS-4 ??? Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/

Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd or similar for CentOS 4

2008-12-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
Barry Brimer wrote: > chkconfig yum on > service yum start yum-cron ? -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #cen...@irc.freenode.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd or similar for CentOS 4

2008-12-11 Thread Barry Brimer
> However we have few machines running CentOS 4.7 > which we can't upgrade to 5 (because of Oracle 9 etc.) > > Is there some similar service available? > > Or has anybody experience in putting "yum -y update" > into crontab for CentOS 4? Any good advices? chkconfig yum on service yum start _

[CentOS] yum-updatesd or similar for CentOS 4

2008-12-11 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, we have enabled yum-updatesd on our dozen real and virtual machines running CentOS 5.2 some time ago and are very satisfied: afar...@ablsw01:~> grep -v ^# /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf [main] run_interval = 7200 updaterefresh = 1200 emit_via = email dbus_listener = no do_update = yes do_dow

RE: [CentOS] Yum-updatesd

2008-09-14 Thread Josh Donovan
Bob Hoffman wrote: > The default setting is every hour. Checking for an update at least once a > day is not bad as a bug fix can come in at anytime. I would think that is > very important for the server. Is CentOS your first introduction to Linux? You may need to cut your teeth upstream on Fedora

RE: [CentOS] Yum-updatesd

2008-09-13 Thread Bob Hoffman
> > This is on, via the chkconfig and seems to run a lot. > > TO DO: auto update YUM for the computer once a day. > > Files: /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf > > Extra: send a mail or add to log file > > Isn't that overkill for an enterprise distro? Subscribing to > the relevant mailing list should h

Re: [CentOS] Yum-updatesd

2008-09-13 Thread Josh Donovan
Bob Hoffman wrote: > This is on, via the chkconfig and seems to run a lot. > TO DO: auto update YUM for the computer once a day. > Files: /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf > Extra: send a mail or add to log file Isn't that overkill for an enterprise distro? Subscribing to the relevant mailing list shoul

RE: [CentOS] Yum-updatesd

2008-09-12 Thread Bob Hoffman
I read somewhere, that one of the issues was choking on sending emails..due to sending to nobody account. I guess I will have to wait and look for errors. I do know that it was always on and had never told me there was an update available when logging in as root. > > below is my configuration of

Re: [CentOS] Yum-updatesd

2008-09-12 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 17:15 -0400, Bob Hoffman wrote: > Finsihing my server set up.. > Yum-updatesd > > This is on, via the chkconfig and seems to run a lot. > > TO DO: auto update YUM for the computer once a day. > Files: /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf > Extra: send a mail or add to log file > > Th

[CentOS] Yum-updatesd

2008-09-12 Thread Bob Hoffman
Finsihing my server set up.. Yum-updatesd This is on, via the chkconfig and seems to run a lot. TO DO: auto update YUM for the computer once a day. Files: /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf Extra: send a mail or add to log file This is the centos original file and my suggested changes. If anyone uses

Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd not working on CentOS 5.2

2008-07-14 Thread John Horne
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 17:42 +0100, John Horne wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 12:12 +0200, Santi Saez wrote: > > > > So, appears that yum-updatesd can download, notify and install > > updates.. but none of this works on a fresh CentOS 5.2 :-( > > Well I tested this on Centos 5.1 and 5.2, as well

Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd not working on CentOS 5.2

2008-07-11 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 12:12 +0200, Santi Saez wrote: > > So, appears that yum-updatesd can download, notify and install > updates.. but none of this works on a fresh CentOS 5.2 :-( > > I will try yum-cron.. but I'm also interested in testing yum- > updatesd, none is using it? there's no patch

Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd not working on CentOS 5.2

2008-07-08 Thread MHR
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Santi Saez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Johnny, > Oh, no! A "Dear Johnny" letter! Waaah! (SCNR :-) mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd not working on CentOS 5.2

2008-07-08 Thread Santi Saez
El 07/07/2008, a las 16:51, Johnny Hughes escribió: Santi Saez wrote: Dear Srs, yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 appears that it's not working on freshly installed CentOS 5.2, using: # rpm -qa "yum*" yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5 yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1 yum-fastestmirror-1

Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd not working on CentOS 5.2

2008-07-07 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 16:10 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 09:51 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> Santi Saez wrote: > >>> Dear Srs, > >>> > >>> yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 appears that it's not working on freshly > >>> installed CentOS 5.2, using: > >>> > >>>

Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd not working on CentOS 5.2

2008-07-07 Thread Johnny Hughes
Craig White wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 09:51 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: Santi Saez wrote: Dear Srs, yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 appears that it's not working on freshly installed CentOS 5.2, using: # rpm -qa "yum*" yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5 yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.

Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd not working on CentOS 5.2

2008-07-07 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 09:51 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Santi Saez wrote: > > > > Dear Srs, > > > > yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 appears that it's not working on freshly > > installed CentOS 5.2, using: > > > > # rpm -qa "yum*" > > yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5 > > yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 > > yum-

Re: [CentOS] yum-updatesd not working on CentOS 5.2

2008-07-07 Thread Johnny Hughes
Santi Saez wrote: Dear Srs, yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 appears that it's not working on freshly installed CentOS 5.2, using: # rpm -qa "yum*" yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5 yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1 yum-fastestmirror-1.1.10-9.el5.centos I see some bugs ([1], [2] and [3]

[CentOS] yum-updatesd not working on CentOS 5.2

2008-07-07 Thread Santi Saez
Dear Srs, yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 appears that it's not working on freshly installed CentOS 5.2, using: # rpm -qa "yum*" yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5 yum-updatesd-0.9-2.el5 yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1 yum-fastestmirror-1.1.10-9.el5.centos I see some bugs ([1], [2] and [3]) in the bug track

[CentOS] Yum-updatesd not functioning

2008-02-25 Thread Damien Solodow
I have a couple of CentOS 5.1 boxes, mostly i386, but a couple x86_64, some real, some virtual. On all of them, I have yum-updatesd configured to emit via email to root. Here is a sample yum-updatesd.conf from one of them: [main] # how often to check for new updates (in seconds) run_interval = 14