tony, thanks so much for the help. i'm having two small problems. the first is that it only works if i give the explicit name of the upgrade, i.e -
rpm -Fvh http://10.16.58.190/rpmupdates/app_to_update-1.0.1.rpm and second - even if i successfully get it to update (by listing the exact file name) the content of the email messages is blank. thanks again for any help! On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 11:27, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > On 29 Jan 2002, Jack Wallen wrote: > >is it possible to install an application, with rpm, on a Red Hat machine > >remotely from a centralized location? what i mean is this: > > > >i have a centralized application repository. i am a sys admin and i need > >to install a certain app onto numerous machines. i want to do this > >automatically so i don't have to go around to every client in the entire > >company and issue: su, and then rpm -ivh linux_app-1.0.1.i386.rpm. > > Sure. Create an rpmupdates directory on the server that is accessible via > HTTP. Then run a cron job on each client that does this: > > rpm -Fvh http://myserver.mydomain/rpmupdates/*.rpm \ > | mail -s 'Output of RPM Freshen' [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > That will update any RPMs on the client that have newer versions on the > server. You will also get an email message containing the results of the > update. > > There are more sophisticated methods, but this should work. > > > Tony > -- > Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> > OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D > AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 > Linux: the choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- Jack Wallen, Jr. Track Editor - Linux/UNIX and Infrastructure TechRepublic (CNET Networks) L I N U X http://www.techproguild.com 502-814-7741 R O C K S Key fingerprint = B7C9 3A5A 0031 5FBC B050 6822 1269 7711 B37B 4F83 sub 1024g/00E9A596 2001-05-11 _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
