<p dir="ltr">Yum log will show data on updates. Or you can feed an egrep list of packages to rpm -qa | egrep "list of stuff updated".</p>
<p dir="ltr">Or just run yum check-update to see what's left to do.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 14, 2015 9:27 AM, "Raj Wurttemberg" <<a href="mailto:rajaw@c64.us">rajaw@c64.us</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">I have an Expect script that I have been using to patch about 200 RHEL servers. The script works, but I really don’t have a way to tell if patching was successful for not. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Ultimately we will get a “real” program to do the patching… but right now we are just using a script. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Is there an easy way to collect the output or validate that the patching (I’m just calling yum update) was completed successfully?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">/Raj<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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