So there's no easy way to schedule all machines to update, say once a month on the first Monday, or something like that? How do you folks generally schedule and kick off your updates?
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 5:25 PM David Rock <da...@graniteweb.com> wrote: > > > On Aug 13, 2018, at 16:09, Guy Matz <guym...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi! In the Spacewalk UI I see: > > Software Updates Available Packages: 6 > > > > rhnsd is running on the client but the client does not get updated. > Running 'yum update' on the client would get it to update, but I think > rhnsd is supposed to take care of this for me . . . > > No. That’s not what rhnsd does. That just checks into the environment and > looks for tasks that have been assigned to the client; it doesn’t > automatically apply anything. You have to explicitly schedule tasks so > when rhnsd connects, it runs the tasks that are waiting for it. > > > what do I need to do to have the client automatically update? > > Short of putting something in cron, not much. You might be able to create > a scheduled event, or use the API to set up a task that the client will > pick up. > > > One more question: Is it possible to have a post-update script run? > > You could set up a remote execution script as a wrapper that runs your yum > update and then afterward have it run something else. I have often used > that and applied to a group of systems under SSM in satellite. > > > — > David Rock > da...@graniteweb.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > Spacewalk-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
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