I agree - there are still a ton of RHEL4 boxes out there. We are pretty strict on keeping with RHN - RHEL4 uses Python 2.3 <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Randal, Phil <<a href="mailto:prandal@herefordshire.gov.uk">prandal@herefordshire.gov.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The latest version now works fine on my CentOS 5.1 boxes. Now all we need is a version which works with python 2.3 so I can check our CentOS / RHEL 4 boxes. Cheers, <div class="Ih2E3d"> Phil -- Phil Randal Networks Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -----Original Message----- From: <a href="mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</a> </div><div class="Ih2E3d">[mailto:<a href="mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</a>] On Behalf Of Randal, Phil Sent: 30 April 2008 15:30 To: Hari Sekhon; Nagios Users mailinglist Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Announce: Check_Yum for RedHat/CentOS serverpackagealerts </div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"># ./check_yum -vvv setting plugin timeout to 30 seconds running command: /usr/bin/yum --security check-update Returncode: '0' Output: 'Loading "security" plugin Loading "priorities" plugin Loading "protectbase" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin Loading "dellsysidplugin" plugin Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Reducing <a href="http://city-fan.org" target="_blank">city-fan.org</a> repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and clones) 5 (x86_64) to included packages only Finished Excluding Packages from Red Hat Enterprise 5 - RPMforge.net - dag Finished Reducing <a href="http://city-fan.org" target="_blank">city-fan.org</a> repository for Fedora Core Rawhide (x86_64) to included packages only Finished Limiting package lists to security relevant ones No packages needed, for security, 0 available 0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections 0 packages excluded due to repository protections ' Yum WARNING: Yum output signature does not match current known format, please make sure you have upgraded to the latest version of this plugin. If the problem persists, please contact the author for a fix </div></div><div class="Ih2E3d">Oh well, maybe one day it will work. :-p Phil </div><div class="Ih2E3d">-- Phil Randal Networks Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -----Original Message----- From: <a href="mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</a>] On Behalf Of Hari Sekhon Sent: 30 April 2008 13:46 To: Nagios Users mailinglist Subject: [Nagios-users] Announce: Check_Yum for RedHat/CentOS server packagealerts </div><div class="Ih2E3d">Hi, I've just released the Check_Yum plugin on NagiosExchange.org as the only one there seemed quite inadequate. </div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Features of the new plugin (none of which are in the old plugin) include: - Differentiate between Security / normal package updates - Better output - numbers of packages updates - Support for extra Yum options including enabling and disabling repos, running from the cache - Optional Warning on non-security updates - Optional Critical alerting on any package - Timeout - Verbosity - Less false package alerts (the old plugin just used to misleading say the O/S needed updates when yum failed for any reason at all), including proper error feedback and a switch for lock handling to not raise an alert like if somebody is running yum interactively at the same time. You can download the plugin here: <a href="http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F2577.html;d=" target="_blank">http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F2577.html;d=</a> 1 (you may need to copy and paste that link if your mail client misinterprets the link) As ever, feedback is welcome, and development will continue if needed for extra switches and features. This should also work with Fedora or another RPM based distros that uses yum as it's package management system but I've not tested it outside RHEL/CentOS so feedback is welcome there too. On a related note, I'm also quite interested in people's experiences of updating and maintaining RedHat based systems especially with regards to security. I spoke to a few people and they basically don't follow security vulnerabilities and don't patch which ties in with my experiences and what I've seen of other people's systems too which is very disappointing. Hopefully this will make it easier to automatically track and keep on top of security updates for those of us who have RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 or later or equivalent. Thanks -h -- Hari Sekhon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - </div></div><div class="Ih2E3d">This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. 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