Hello, an outstanding feature of the new package management is sending a mail to root with the available updates listed. Not a problem on a desktop machine (there's opensuse-updater ;-) , but really needed on a server. I have written such a application. Well, application is exaggerated - it's a 10 lines script calling zypp-checkpatches-wrapper + 110 lines of XSLT stylesheet. Download: package "patch2mail" on http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/cboltz/openSUSE_10.2/repodata/ (also available for factory) Usage is easy: just install the package ;-) Every time cron.daily runs, it will send you a mail if updates are available. Questions: - is sending the mail to root ok or should the mail address be a config option? - is it ok to install to /etc/cron.daily directly? (IMHO yes, several other packages (for example logdigest) do this also.) - any other ideas? - will it be included in 10.3? ;-) On my todo list: - add a line listing the zypper command to install a specific patch (ready for copy&paste) BTW: What is the correct command to install a specific patch? zypper in -t patch -y yast2-printer works, but I'd like to include the patch number. zypper in -t patch -y yast2-printer-2706-0 does not work - "patch 'yast2-printer-2706-0' not found" :-( Regards, Christian Boltz PS: an example notification mail looks like this: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Update sources: - SUSE-Linux-10.2-Updates (http://suse.inode.at/pub/update/10.2) === yast2-printer - Patch 2706-0 (recommended) === yast2-printer: show remote printers This patch will fix several bugs: (#240727) - show also remote printers (#220712) - if more PPD's are available, select recommended first (#214243) - suggest PPD file for the selected printer (#223838) - select proper default queue === kernel - Patch 2705-0 (security) === Linux Kernel security update. This kernel update fixes the following security problems: - CVE-2006-5751: An integer overflow in the networking bridge ioctl starting with Kernel 2.6.7 could be used by local attackers to overflow kernel memory buffers and potentially escalate privileges [#222656] [... several other issues ...] Furthermore, it catches up to the mainline kernel, version 2.6.18.8, and contains a large number of additional fixes for non security bugs. -------------------------------------------------------- Total: 2 updates (1 security) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Ausgaben mit einer 0 sind ok, es sei denn sie sind es nicht. [Thorsten Haude in suse-linux] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org