My bad. I forgot it was replaced by the platform-agnostic PackageKit.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Lightner, Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JLightner@water.com">JLightner@water.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Jim Kinney<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Monday, August 08, 2011 9:46 AM</span></font></p><div class="im"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><br>
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Updatesd checks automatically and can notify, or auto update based on config.<u></u><u></u></font></div></div><p></p><div><div></div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On Aug 8, 2011 9:20 AM, "James Sumners" <<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com" target="_blank">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
> I'm looking for an equivalent to apticron[1] for RHEL6. I realize that<br>
> I could automate a `yum check-update -q | mail ...` but that is a poor<br>
> substitute. Notice that apticron actually gives details in the email<br>
> about the available updates (which allows me to set a priority on when<br>
> to do the updating). I keep coming across references to<br>
> yum-updatesd[2], but that tool doesn't seem to be installed or even<br>
> available to be installed:<br>
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> " # yum provides yum-updatesd<br>
> Loaded plugins: downloadonly, product-id, subscription-manager<br>
> Updating Red Hat repositories.<br>
> rhel-6-server-rpms<br>
> | 2.1 kB 00:00<br>
> Warning: 3.0.x versions of yum would erroneously match against filenames.<br>
> You can use "*/yum-updatesd" and/or "*bin/yum-updatesd" to get that behaviour<br>
> No Matches found"<br>
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> So, RHEL faithfuls, any suggestions?<br>
> <br>
> [1] -- <a href="http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/491" target="_blank">http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/491</a><br>
> [2] -- <a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/red-hat-centos-fedora-send-package-update-notification-via-email/" target="_blank">
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/red-hat-centos-fedora-send-package-update-notification-via-email/</a><br>
> <br>
> -- <br>
> James Sumners<br>
> <a href="http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/" target="_blank">http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/</a><br>
> <br>
> "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts<br>
> pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it<br>
> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become<br>
> drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."<br>
> <br>
> Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)<br>
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