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Check4update for SME Server

Maintainer

Stephane de Labrusse aka stephdl

Version

smeserver-check4update

The latest version of smeserver-check4update is available in the SME repository, click on the version number(s) for more information.

Description

Check4update is a contrib which regularly checks the determined repositories and send email to the admin, for informing him of all new rpms that need an update

Requirements

You need to enable stephdl repository

Installation

This contrib is currently held in an external non default repository. You must first configure the stephdl repository on your SME server by following the steps here stephdl (if not already configured).

You can check the repo status as follows

db yum_repositories show stephdl

If you receive no output then the repo is not configured on your SME server.

Then run the following commands to install the Check4update contrib on your SME Server.

for sme8 or sme9

yum --enablerepo=stephdl install smeserver-check4update

You have to set the repositories you want to check, you must enabled them before as it is asked on this page

Repositories have to be separated by a coma ','

for example

config setprop check4update repositories fws,stephdl

Then activate the database changes as follows:

signal-event post-upgrade;  signal-event reboot

or if you do not want to restart the server, simply do

signal-event console-save

Usage

# config show check4update 
  check4update=configuration
    emailaddress=admin-yum
    excludes=
    frequence=daily
    repositories=

• repositories

config setprop check4update repositories repo1,repo2,repo3

• email recipients

The recipient is admin but you can change this by a db command

config setprop check4update emailaddress "admin-yum"

or if you need several recipients

config setprop check4update emailaddress "admin-yum foo@foo.be foo@foo.fr"

• frequence

config setprop check4update frequence daily
signal-event console-save

daily is the default value but you can set also

weekly
monthly

• excludes

you can exclude rpms if you don't want they are checked by the contrib

 config setprop check4update excludes rpm1,rpm2,rpm3,rpm4

Launch Manually

in a terminal root

/sbin/e-smith/check4repositoriesupdates

if you want to drop an email

/sbin/e-smith/check4repositoriesupdates -m

Uninstall

yum remove smeserver-check4update

Bugs

Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla and select the smeserver-foo component or use this link .

"No open bugs found."