Check4updates
Check4update for SME Server
Maintainer
Stephane de Labrusse aka stephdl
Version
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
frequence=daily
repositories=
- repositories
config setprop check4update repositories repo1,repo2,repo3 signal-event console-save
- 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"
and then
signal-event console-save
- frequence
config setprop check4update frequence daily signal-event console-save
daily is the default value but you can set also
weekly monthly
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 .
