(In reply to Stefan Hundhammer from comment #13) > If you have a large server farm with a number of unattended machines, you > might consider a centralized server management solution to ease the pain. In ancient times those issues were solved by sending mail to root. Cron sends mail - or logs to syslog - if tasks fail or write messages to the screen. If yast-online-update suppresses this - maybe there's an opt. to enable it.