[opensuse-security] Automatic Update Checking
Hi everyone, as unfortunately fou4s is not maintained any more I'm looking for a program / script to automatically check for updates on OpenSuSE 10.2 / 10.3 and send an email-notification about new updates. As far as I can see the only option YOU has is to automatically install updates. I'd rather have my box check for updates automatically (via cron) and send an email if there are any updates available. With fou4s this was really comfortable. Has anyone set up something similar with zypper, yum or one of the other update-tools? Greetings, Ralf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org
Hi Ralf,
as unfortunately fou4s is not maintained any more I'm looking for a program / script to automatically check for updates on OpenSuSE 10.2 / 10.3 and send an email-notification about new updates.
--> maybe its not maintained any more but it still works with openSuSE 10.2 and 10.3. For openSuSE 10.2 you can use: Server=http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse CheckFou4s=1 For openSuSE 10.3, the latter option is not working any more. But it works nicely for me with: Server=http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse CheckFou4s=0 Good luck ! Armin -- Am Hasenberg 26 office: Institut für Atmosphärenphysik D-18209 Bad Doberan Schloss-Straße 6 Tel. ++49-(0)38203/42137 D-18225 Kühlungsborn / GERMANY Email: schoech@iap-kborn.de Tel. +49-(0)38293-68-102 WWW: http://armins.cjb.net/ Fax. +49-(0)38293-68-50
Hi, Fou4s is not maintained a lot at the moment, but I'm about to get some time to work on it again. As mentioned, it works with 10.3 using the url below. CheckFou4s=0 should not be necessary any more, I just fixed the link on my server to allow 10.3 updates. Markus On Nov 13, Armin Schoech <armin.schoech@web.de> wrote:
Hi Ralf,
as unfortunately fou4s is not maintained any more I'm looking for a program / script to automatically check for updates on OpenSuSE 10.2 / 10.3 and send an email-notification about new updates.
--> maybe its not maintained any more but it still works with openSuSE 10.2 and 10.3.
For openSuSE 10.2 you can use:
Server=http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse CheckFou4s=1
For openSuSE 10.3, the latter option is not working any more. But it works nicely for me with:
Server=http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse CheckFou4s=0
Good luck ! Armin
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 03:52:41PM +0100, Ralf Ronneburger wrote:
Hi everyone,
as unfortunately fou4s is not maintained any more I'm looking for a program / script to automatically check for updates on OpenSuSE 10.2 / 10.3 and send an email-notification about new updates.
As far as I can see the only option YOU has is to automatically install updates. I'd rather have my box check for updates automatically (via cron) and send an email if there are any updates available. With fou4s this was really comfortable. Has anyone set up something similar with zypper, yum or one of the other update-tools?
I would say that you can run in the script: zypper lu Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org
Hi Marcus, Marcus Meissner wrote:
I would say that you can run in the script:
zypper lu
Ciao, Marcus
but then I'll get an email every time the script runs, not only when new updates are available... Is there an option to make zypper quiet enough to not produce any output if there are no updates? zypper -q lu does not seem to do the job, it still outputs all the repositories it checks. Greetings, Ralf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org
Then zypper lu | grep 'keyword' should do the job, simply look at the output from any zypper run where some packages had been updated and take a suitable word/phrase from the lines you'd like to receive as 'keyword' or take a suitable regexp. Andreas Ralf Ronneburger wrote:
Hi Marcus,
Marcus Meissner wrote:
I would say that you can run in the script:
zypper lu
Ciao, Marcus
but then I'll get an email every time the script runs, not only when new updates are available... Is there an option to make zypper quiet enough to not produce any output if there are no updates? zypper -q lu does not seem to do the job, it still outputs all the repositories it checks.
Greetings,
Ralf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Ronneburger schrieb am 13.11.2007 15:52:
Hi everyone,
as unfortunately fou4s is not maintained any more I'm looking for a program / script to automatically check for updates on OpenSuSE 10.2 / 10.3 and send an email-notification about new updates.
As far as I can see the only option YOU has is to automatically install updates. I'd rather have my box check for updates automatically (via cron) and send an email if there are any updates available. With fou4s this was really comfortable. Has anyone set up something similar with zypper, yum or one of the other update-tools?
Greetings,
Ralf
Hi Ralf, in /etc/sysconfig/sw_management you can change PREFERRED_SW_MANAGER_STACK to "opensuse". It does not install automatically, but shows an icon in the system tray. You may run "smart update" (givent you installed the smart package manager, e. g. from software.opensuse.org/repositories/smart) as a cron job, and "smart upgrade --dump > /tmp/upgradeable" afterwards; the file can be mailed to you. HTH Werner - -- Werner Flamme, Abt. WKDV Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH - UFZ Permoserstr. 15 - 04318 Leipzig Tel.: (0341) 235-1921 - Fax (0341) 235-451921 http://www.ufz.de - eMail: werner.flamme@ufz.de -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHOdz+k33Krq8b42MRAgOWAJwPbcibGiZnH2FvF17OxqC7LP9heACaA1rg jxvBnRBih6Q0rZN+LP7Tptw= =KB0m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org
Hello, Am Dienstag, 13. November 2007 schrieb Ralf Ronneburger:
as unfortunately fou4s is not maintained any more I'm looking for a program / script to automatically check for updates on OpenSuSE 10.2 / 10.3 and send an email-notification about new updates. [...] Has anyone set up something similar with zypper, yum or one of the other update-tools?
I have written such a tool, based on zypp-checkpatches-wrapper output and a XSLT stylesheet. Seems I'm not the only one who needs this feature - and the XSLT headache wasn't for /dev/null ;-) You can download it from the buildservice ("patch2mail" in home:cboltz) or directly from http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=patch2mail Make sure to choose the correct distribution, there are some changes between 10.2 and 10.3. Usage is very simple: just install the RPM :-) It comes with the script in /etc/cron.daily and sends the mail to root. Regards, Christian Boltz -- Hmm ... Du meinst das RamA ... Das macht das Frühstück gut ... denn wenn Du RamA verwendest, dann meckert die Frau nicht, wenn Du schon zum Frühstück vor dem Rechner sitzt. [Konrad Neitzel in suse-linux] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org
Hi Christian, Christian Boltz wrote:
I have written such a tool, based on zypp-checkpatches-wrapper output and a XSLT stylesheet. Seems I'm not the only one who needs this feature - and the XSLT headache wasn't for /dev/null ;-)
You can download it from the buildservice ("patch2mail" in home:cboltz) or directly from http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=patch2mail Make sure to choose the correct distribution, there are some changes between 10.2 and 10.3.
thanks a lot! That's exactly what I've been looking for. Greetings, Ralf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org
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Andreas Bolsch -
Armin Schoech -
Christian Boltz -
Marcus Meissner -
Markus Gaugusch -
Ralf Ronneburger -
Werner Flamme