Tag Archives: reporting

Weekly errata Report for YUM based machines

I had a request the other day at the Utah Open Source Conference to share a very small script that I have that checks for, and reports any available updates on a YUM based machine. This means CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, etc. I have been using this script at work for some time now and, by… Read More »

Monitor System Logs With Logwatch

I mentioned in a recent post regarding postfix smtp via Gmail that I use the logwatch utility for monitoring my systems. Ever since I found this utility I have really enjoyed the daily snapshot that it gives me of each of my systems, whether local or remote. Everything from package installed and removed, to security… Read More »