I installed CentOS 7 late last year to use as my Nagios/Cacti Monitoring server. Clean install, nothing real complicated just the server version with no GUI, just command line/SSH. I have noticed over the last 3 months that I've not had ANY updates when I run 'yum update'. I have run 'yum clean all' to see if that might be a problem, and I've made sure the updates repo is enabled (it is), but I'm getting no CentOS updates. Did something change that I'm not aware of? I'm even clueless how to being debugging this. I'm no noob to RPM based systems as I run Fedora pretty much everywhere else. Ideas? -- Mark Haney Sr. Systems Engineer, VIF International Education mark.haney at vifprogram.com 919-265-5006
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Mark Haney <mark.haney at vifprogram.com> wrote:> I installed CentOS 7 late last year to use as my Nagios/Cacti Monitoring > server. Clean install, nothing real complicated just the server version > with no GUI, just command line/SSH. > > I have noticed over the last 3 months that I've not had ANY updates when I > run 'yum update'. I have run 'yum clean all' to see if that might be a > problem, and I've made sure the updates repo is enabled (it is), but I'm > getting no CentOS updates. > > Did something change that I'm not aware of? I'm even clueless how to being > debugging this. I'm no noob to RPM based systems as I run Fedora pretty > much everywhere else. > > Ideas?Try something like "yum info kernel". It should show the repos it is checking, the installed version and the repo it is from, plus available newer versions. If your installed version isn't from anaconda, maybe you have automatic updates enabled and there is nothing newer when you check. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mark Haney wrote:> I installed CentOS 7 late last year to use as my Nagios/Cacti Monitoring > server. Clean install, nothing real complicated just the server version > with no GUI, just command line/SSH. > > I have noticed over the last 3 months that I've not had ANY updates when I > run 'yum update'. I have run 'yum clean all' to see if that might be a > problem, and I've made sure the updates repo is enabled (it is), but I'm > getting no CentOS updates. > > Did something change that I'm not aware of? I'm even clueless how to > being debugging this. I'm no noob to RPM based systems as I run Fedorapretty> much everywhere else. > > Ideas?There's been a bunch. Two ideas: first, are the repos enabled (check in /etc/yum.repos.d, and make sure enabled=1, and second, do you have any excludes (and wildcards count) in /etc/yum.conf? mark
Yeah, I just don't get it. I've looked at several mirrors and haven't found /any/ updates dated this month. That's really odd, I would think. I'm not talking installed updates on my system, ANY updated packages on the mirrors from 3/2015. Has anyone else updated packages this month? Also, as an aside, what's the difference between CentOS 7 and CentOS 7.1406? And does that make a difference? I know I don't have a ton of actual packages on this machine, it doesn't really need any more than what I have on it, which is pretty minimal, but I'm worried I'm missing security updates for some reason, and I don't want to have this system vulnerable even if it isn't accessible from outside my office. On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Mark Haney <mark.haney at vifprogram.com> > wrote: > > I installed CentOS 7 late last year to use as my Nagios/Cacti Monitoring > > server. Clean install, nothing real complicated just the server version > > with no GUI, just command line/SSH. > > > > I have noticed over the last 3 months that I've not had ANY updates when > I > > run 'yum update'. I have run 'yum clean all' to see if that might be a > > problem, and I've made sure the updates repo is enabled (it is), but I'm > > getting no CentOS updates. > > > > Did something change that I'm not aware of? I'm even clueless how to > being > > debugging this. I'm no noob to RPM based systems as I run Fedora pretty > > much everywhere else. > > > > Ideas? > > Try something like "yum info kernel". > It should show the repos it is checking, the installed version and the > repo it is from, plus available newer versions. If your installed > version isn't from anaconda, maybe you have automatic updates enabled > and there is nothing newer when you check. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- Mark Haney Sr. Systems Engineer, VIF International Education mark.haney at vifprogram.com 919-265-5006
I have no excludes in yum.conf. But I noticed something odd in the CentOS-Base.repo file. The [updates] section didn't have an explicit 'enabled=1' in it. Though, when I added it in, it made no difference. I have noticed that I do have some updated packages (like httpd) that are from February and appear to be the most recent based on the mirrors, but every mirror I hit I see no updated packages listed for this month. Maybe there's just not been any and I'm overreacting. But to give an example, we run several Ubuntu 14.04 LTS virtual machines and I've have a dozen or so security related updates that I've not seen for CentOS, like openssl (which I do have installed on it) and gnutls. I know package names don't always match up, but these are recent known vulnerabilities and I don't like the feeling I'm not securing my systems properly. Does that makes sense? On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 2:58 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:> Mark Haney wrote: > > I installed CentOS 7 late last year to use as my Nagios/Cacti Monitoring > > server. Clean install, nothing real complicated just the server version > > with no GUI, just command line/SSH. > > > > I have noticed over the last 3 months that I've not had ANY updates when > I > > run 'yum update'. I have run 'yum clean all' to see if that might be a > > problem, and I've made sure the updates repo is enabled (it is), but I'm > > getting no CentOS updates. > > > > Did something change that I'm not aware of? I'm even clueless how to > > being debugging this. I'm no noob to RPM based systems as I run Fedora > pretty > > much everywhere else. > > > > Ideas? > > There's been a bunch. Two ideas: first, are the repos enabled (check in > /etc/yum.repos.d, and make sure enabled=1, and second, do you have any > excludes (and wildcards count) in /etc/yum.conf? > > mark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- Mark Haney Sr. Systems Engineer, VIF International Education mark.haney at vifprogram.com 919-265-5006