Hello, Thank you for this suggestion, but installing "a replacement for SuSE's Yast OnlineUpdate" is not the first thing on my list of ideal solutions. Surely an online update can be done in a non-interactive environment using YaST, right? Thanks again, Richard. -- Richard Hobbs (Systems Administrator) Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. - Speech Technology Group Web: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/research/ Normal Email: richard.hobbs@crl.toshiba.co.uk Mobile Email: mobile@mongeese.co.uk Tel: +44 1223 376964 Mobile: +44 7811 803377

-----Original Message----- From: Bjorn Tore Sund [mailto:bjornts@mi.uib.no] Sent: 15 February 2006 15:22 To: Richard Hobbs Cc: suse-autoinstall@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] Performing an online update from within an init script

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Richard Hobbs wrote:

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Hello,

Is it possible to run an online update using YaST2 from within an init script?

If so, which command should I use, and how can I specify what types of packages I want to upgrade (e.g. security, recommended etc...)?

Thanks in advance, people :-)

I've installed fou4s (http://fou4s.gaugusch.at/) and put the following as /etc/init.d/fou4s:

#! /bin/sh # Patch script for Math dept., University of Bergen. # Based on a rc-script from SuSE Linux 8.1 # # Written by Bjørn Tore Sund # ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: fou4s # Required-Start: $network # Required-Stop: # Default-Start: 3 5 # Default-Stop: # Description: Runs fou4s at boot ### END INIT INFO

# Source some useful shell functions . /etc/rc.status

# Reset status rc_reset

case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting fou4s: " fou4s --auto --checkfou4s >> /var/log/fou4satboot fou4s -in >> /var/log/fou4satboot rc_status -v ;; stop) echo -n "Stopping fou4s: " rc_status -v ;; status) rc_status ;; restart) ## Stop the service and regardless of whether it was ## running or not, start it again. $0 stop $0 start # Remember status and be quiet rc_status ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}" exit 1 esac rc_exit

-BT -- Bjørn Tore Sund Phone: (+47) 555-84894 Stupidity is like a System administrator Fax: (+47) 555-89672 fractal; universal and Math. Department Mobile: (+47) 918 68075 infinitely repetitive. University of Bergen VIP: 81724 Support: http://bs.uib.no Contact: teknisk@mi.uib.no Direct: bjornts@mi.uib.no

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On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Richard Hobbs wrote:

Thank you for this suggestion, but installing "a replacement for SuSE's Yast OnlineUpdate" is not the first thing on my list of ideal solutions.

Surely an online update can be done in a non-interactive environment using YaST, right?

As others have said, sure you can. But fou4s is well-tested and commonly used in this particular type of setting - I prefer it and recommend it, and use it or have used it on SLES 8 and 9, as well as all SuSE versions since sometime early in 8.X. Each to his own. -BT -- Bjørn Tore Sund Phone: (+47) 555-84894 Stupidity is like a System administrator Fax: (+47) 555-89672 fractal; universal and Math. Department Mobile: (+47) 918 68075 infinitely repetitive. University of Bergen VIP: 81724 Support: http://bs.uib.no Contact: teknisk@mi.uib.no Direct: bjornts@mi.uib.no