[Yum] verifying Yum updates

[Brett Hall]

A couple questions about Yum's functionality:

1. Is there a way to generate a log report that aggregates results on a LAN of machines which had updates to fail?  If so, can the results be exported to a syslog server or email list? 

2. Does YUM do anything to check that the update actually took place as intended and was completed? For example, automated patching tools check names, file size, registry (for Windows) etc to verify that the change actually took place as intended. Sometimes, for example, in Windows, the registry will be updated even if the file wasn’t, giving a false positive on the update. 

 3. What would I see in the log if an update failed—say it crashed or was turned off during the update, or was simply offline at the time.

 Sincerely,

Brett Hall

State of NC

 


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