[ale] RHEL6 equivalent for apticron?

[Jim Kinney]

My bad. I forgot it was replaced by the platform-agnostic PackageKit.

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

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>  I think you missed the point – He was saying yum-updatesd isn’t available
> in RHEL6 which appears to be true.  I found one site that clearly says this
> package was removed from RHEL6.****
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> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of *Jim
> Kinney
> *Sent:* Monday, August 08, 2011 9:46 AM
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> *To:* **Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts**
> *Subject:* Re: [ale] RHEL6 equivalent for apticron?
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> Yum search update
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> Updatesd checks automatically and can notify, or auto update based on
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>  On Aug 8, 2011 9:20 AM, "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm looking for an equivalent to apticron[1] for RHEL6. I realize that
> > I could automate a `yum check-update -q | mail ...` but that is a poor
> > substitute. Notice that apticron actually gives details in the email
> > about the available updates (which allows me to set a priority on when
> > to do the updating). I keep coming across references to
> > yum-updatesd[2], but that tool doesn't seem to be installed or even
> > available to be installed:
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> > " # yum provides yum-updatesd
> > Loaded plugins: downloadonly, product-id, subscription-manager
> > Updating Red Hat repositories.
> > rhel-6-server-rpms
> > | 2.1 kB 00:00
> > Warning: 3.0.x versions of yum would erroneously match against filenames.
> > You can use "*/yum-updatesd" and/or "*bin/yum-updatesd" to get that
> behaviour
> > No Matches found"
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> > So, RHEL faithfuls, any suggestions?
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> > [1] -- http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/491
> > [2] --
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/red-hat-centos-fedora-send-package-update-notification-via-email/
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