[CentOS] yum-plugin-security

Gabriele Pohl
Sat, 22 Nov 2014 18:52:30 -0000

On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 12:07:00 -0600
Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 15:32:32 +0100
> Gabriele Pohl wrote:
>
> > As written in my other mail, the intention is
> > to get triggered when security updates are pending.
>
> why not set up something to watch the centos-announce list,
> parse the subject lines for "Security", and then
> do whatever you need to do after that.

because I want the alert for my individual machines.
So the proposed method is no solution
for an automagical trigger :)

As said in my earlier mail I use Munin
for system monitoring and want the raven
to croak when a node has pending security updates:

http://gallery.munin-monitoring.org/distro/plugins/node.d.linux/yum.html

But thanks for sharing your idea ~

Cheers,

	Gabriele