RE: [suse-autoinstall] Performing an online update from within an init script

15 Feb 2006

      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.

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-----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:
...
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
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