On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Alec T. Habig <[email protected]> wrote: > Todd And Margo Chester writes: >> >> Anyone have a favorite way of displaying when YUM updates >> are available on SL 6.1? > > Use yum-cron, and in the /etc/sysconfig control file, tell it to email > you about updates but not install them by setting the CHECK_ONLY (or > DOWNLOAD_ONLY, depending on what you want done) flags. By default it > emails root, but you can change that to someone else in that same file. > > Note that after installing it you need to > > chkconfig yum-cron on > > to actually have it run each night.
For those who do monitoring, there's also a "check_update" script available for Nagios. It can be handy to have that display tool popping up with alerts, especially when couplided with naglite3, which I've gotten fond of.
