[ale] Remote patching RHEL servers?

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Sat Feb 14 09:34:24 EST 2015


Yum log will show data on updates. Or you can feed an egrep list of
packages to rpm -qa | egrep "list of stuff updated".

Or just run yum check-update to see what's left to do.
On Feb 14, 2015 9:27 AM, "Raj Wurttemberg" <rajaw at c64.us> wrote:

> I have an Expect script that I have been using to patch about 200 RHEL
> servers.  The script works, but I really don’t have a way to tell if
> patching was successful for not.
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> Ultimately we will get a “real” program to do the patching… but right now
> we are just using a script.
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> Is there an easy way to collect the output or validate that the patching
> (I’m just calling yum update) was completed successfully?
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> Thanks,
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> /Raj
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