[Yum] Yum cron defaults
Garrick Staples
garrick at usc.edu
Mon Jan 5 18:32:09 UTC 2004
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:52:51AM -0500, Hedemark, Magnus alleged:
> Josko Plazonic [mailto:plazonic at Math.Princeton.EDU] said:
>
> I would be *completely* happy with syslogging everything rather than
> emailing it. That way I could use something like logwatch against my
> central syslog server to consolidate package reporting (something like
> "Package foo was upgraded 224 times" rather than seeing 224 emails each
> saying that the package "foo" was upgraded).
>
> But if this were accepted as an enhancement, one thing I would ask is to
> make it a modular thing. i.e. some people might want to log to syslog, some
> to snmp trap, others still to an http post. So rather than hard code the
> logging to one form of output, put the hooks there to call an external
> function or script. That would give us the most flexibility in figuring out
> how to track client package upgrades without having to be "spammed" :)
The "hooks" are called stdout. Just make the cronjob do whatever you want.
yum ... | whateveryouwant
yum update | logger -t yum
etc...
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Garrick Staples, Linux/HPCC Administrator
University of Southern California
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