18Jun/11
Yum Update Notifier
Today I setup this handy script written by Matty at prefetch.net which runs yum check-updates every morning at 5am using the Linux crontab and sends an e-mail out if any updates are available.
It would be particularly useful for managing multiple web servers. Otherwise the administrator would need to ssh into each server regularly to see if there are any available updates. This way the process of checking for updates is automated and you would only need to log in and install updates after receiving the e-mail report that they are available. It may also be possible to modify the script to install all non kernel related updates automatically.
The script is located at http://prefetch.net/code/yumnotifier
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