On Tuesday 05 January 2010, Thomas Harold wrote: > On 1/4/2010 1:55 PM, Larry Starr wrote: > > On Monday 04 January 2010, Michael Scheidell wrote: > >> On 1/4/10 1:36 PM, Larry Starr wrote: > >>> On Saturday 02 January 2010, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > >>> > >>> My question, short of running with "-D", which is a bit noisy, is there > >>> a way to get sa-update to report the items it updates? I have found > >>> nothing reading the Docs or the Code. > >> > >> rc of 0 means it updated, rc of 1 means no update available. > > > > Yes I am aware of that, I was more interrested in, for want of a better > > term, and activity summary log, something less verbose that "-D". > > You mean something more then: > > "An update was available, and was downloaded and installed successfully. > You are now running sa-update version svn607589." > > Which is the message generated by sa-update on my system, packed up into > an e-mail to the root user when it runs daily. I think it's a standard > script that is part of SA... > > If you want to know specifically what changed on the server - maybe a > tripwire setup or use FSVS and version the entire server (well, except > for stuff that doesn't need to be versioned like user data). On our > setup, after running sa-update, I could use FSVS to get a list of what > files have changed and even do a diff between the old/new versions.
That message would be helpful, my sa-update seems to produce no output, regardless of the presense or absense of updates. I am running version svn607589, per the Version option of sa-update: sa-update --version sa-update version svn607589 running on Perl version 5.10.0 Apparently it is necessary to place sa-update in a wrapper script to generate such output? -- Larry G. Starr - lar...@fullcompass.com or sta...@globaldialog.com Software Engineer: Full Compass Systems LTD. Phone: 608-831-7330 x 1347 FAX: 608-831-6330 =================================================================== There are only three sports: bullfighting, mountaineering and motor racing, all the rest are merely games! - Ernest Hemmingway
