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How to get yum package update notifications via e-mail?

Bob — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:36:53 +0000

This will work for: Red Hat / CentOS / Fedora
For Debian / Ubuntu: Please visit this website.

My server sends me a notifications for everything what happens on the server through e-mail, the only thing I had to check manually every time were the updates / upgrades for my Linux system. I figured there should be a way to get yum-update send notifications with available upgrades. So what we are going to do now is force yum to send an email when a update or upgrade is available.

First thing we need to do is open the yum config file.

root@server:$ nano /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf

[main]
# how often to check for new updates (in seconds)

run_interval =3600
# how often to allow checking on request (in seconds)

updaterefresh =600
# how to send notifications (valid: dbus, email, syslog)

emit_via = dbus

# should we listen via dbus to give out update information/check for

# new updates

dbus_listener = yes
# automatically install updates

do_update = no

# automatically download updates

do_download = no

# automatically download deps of updates

do_download_deps = no

Add these variables, and change “email_to” to your e-mail address:

emit_via = email

# who to send the email to:

email_to = email@example.com

# who send the notifications

email_from = yum-update@yourserver.com

Here is my working config file. You can also just copy and use this one and change the e-mail addresses.

[main]
# how often to check for new updates (in seconds)

run_interval =3600
# how often to allow checking on request (in seconds)

updaterefresh =600
# how to send notifications (valid: dbus, email, syslog)

emit_via = email

# who to send the email to:

email_to = email@example.com

# who send the notifications

email_from = yum-update@yourserver.com
# should we listen via dbus to give out update information/check for

# new updates

dbus_listener = yes
# automatically install updates

do_update = no

# automatically download updates

do_download = no

# automatically download deps of updates

do_download_deps = no

After saving the file. Restart notification yum-updatesd service.

root@server:$ /etc/init.d/yum-updatesd restart

E-mail notification sample sent by yum notification.

Subject: yum: 9 Updates Available (on yourserver.com)
From: yum-update@example.com
Date:  12/4/2009 11:34:31
To: email@example.com
Hi,

This is the automatic update system on yourserver.com
There are 9 package updates available. Please run the system updater.
Packages available for update:
    firefox                       

    kernel                        

    cscope                        

    kernel-headers                

    dnsmasq                       

    kernel-devel                  

    apr-util                      

    xulrunner                     

    apr-util-devel                
Thank You,

Your Computer

Install SABnzbd on Unix

Bob — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:24:21 +0000

Alas, the CentOS 5.2 repositories do not have all required modules, so you need to so some work yourself. It does come with Python 2.4, which is OK for SABnzbd. Some extra packages are available if you allow access to the unofficial Dag Wieers repository:

user@server:$ rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

Required compiler stuff:

user@server:$ yum install gcc gcc-c++ python-devel

PyOpenSSL

user@server:$ yum install pyOpenSSL

Cheetah

user@server:$ yum install python-cheetah

user@server:$ wget http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/cheetahtemplate/Cheetah-2.0.1.tar.gz
gzip zxf Cheetah-2.0.1.tar.gz
cd Cheetah-2.0.1
python setup.py install # Need to do this as admin
cd ..

YEnc

user@server:$ wget http://sabnzbd.sourceforge.net/yenc-0.3.tar.gz
tar zxf yenc-0.3.tar.gz
cd yenc-0.3
python setup.py install # Need to do this as admin
cd ..

par2cmdline

user@server:$ wget http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/parchive/par2cmdline-0.4.tar.gz
wget http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/binegar/src/par2cmdline-0.4-gcc4.patch
tar zxf par2cmdline-0.4.tar.gz
cd par2cmdline-0.4
patch < ../par2cmdline-0.4-gcc4.patch reedsolomon.cpp
./configure
make
make check
make install # Need to do this as admin
cd ..

unrar

user@server:$ yum install unrar

user@server:$ wget http://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrar-3.7.7-centos.gz
gzip -d unrar-3.7.7-centos.gz
chmod +x unrar-3.7.7-centos
cp unrar-3.7.7-centos /usr/bin/unrar # Need to do this as admin

Feedparser

user@server:$ wget http://feedparser.googlecode.com/files/feedparser-4.1.zip
mkdir feedparser-4.1
cd feedparser-4.1
unzip ../feedparser-4.1.zip
python setup.py install # Need to do this as admin
cd ..

SABnzbd itself

user@server:$ wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/sabnzbdplus/SABnzbd-0.4.6-src.tar.gz
tar zxf SABnzbd-0.4.6-src.tar.gz
cd SABnzbd-0.4.6
# pre-compile optimized
python -OO SABnzbd.py -v
cd ..

Start SABnzbd

user@server:$ ./SABnzbd.py -s 0.0.0.0:8080

Article Source: CentOS 5.2 (will work for RedHat 5 too)
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No good start in August.

Bob — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:10:52 +0000

yeahh.. soo… this month did not go as expected. I thought this month were going to be great. But bad stuff happened.

To start off with, I lost my phone. Which was like really really expensive.. Then my home server crashed and I couln’t get it back to start up. My backup for my server was like nothing.. so that did not go easy either. Normally I can just use the backup to get my server fixed. But now I need a fresh new install.

Then finally I got off work, so I walked towards my bicycle and saw that both tires were empty. Like my week couldn’t get any better.

It was just a bad week… I’m sure more people had the same.. so for those people; I’m sorry for you! haha. lol.