[ale] RHEL6 equivalent for apticron?

[Lightner, Jeff]

Hadn't noticed it was gone but you're right.  Not even in the repositories.

Some quick checking found mention of yum-cron and that IS in the repositories.   You can install with "yum install yum-cron".   There are configuration and cron files as well as an init.d it puts in place so you have to do configuration and run chkconfig on the init script to have it running automatically.  I did the install just to look at the files it puts in place but won't be running it.





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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of James Sumners
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 9:19 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: [ale] RHEL6 equivalent for apticron?

I'm looking for an equivalent to apticron[1] for RHEL6. I realize that
I could automate a `yum check-update -q | mail ...` but that is a poor
substitute. Notice that apticron actually gives details in the email
about the available updates (which allows me to set a priority on when
to do the updating). I keep coming across references to
yum-updatesd[2], but that tool doesn't seem to be installed or even
available to be installed:

" # yum provides yum-updatesd
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, product-id, subscription-manager
Updating Red Hat repositories.
rhel-6-server-rpms
                                              | 2.1 kB     00:00
Warning: 3.0.x versions of yum would erroneously match against filenames.
 You can use "*/yum-updatesd" and/or "*bin/yum-updatesd" to get that behaviour
No Matches found"

So, RHEL faithfuls, any suggestions?

[1] -- http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/491
[2] -- http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/red-hat-centos-fedora-send-package-update-notification-via-email/

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