#62: notification of pending security updates in motd ------------------------------+------------------------------- Reporter: mattdm | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Fedora 21 (Alpha) Component: Cloud Base Image | Keywords: ------------------------------+------------------------------- I think it would be nice if the /etc/motd (or some other mechanism) would inform users of pending security updates on login.
And, a welcome side-effect is that having cloud images check with the update server network periodically gives us a better measure of whether we're actually being used. Right now, cloud images are probably being drastically undercounted, as many aren't updated ever.
#62: notification of pending security updates in motd ------------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: mattdm | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Fedora 21 (Alpha) Component: Cloud Base Image | Resolution: Keywords: | ------------------------------+--------------------------------
Comment (by mattdm):
See also this RFE for yum-cron to output to motd: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=995537
#62: notification of pending security updates in motd ------------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: mattdm | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Fedora 21 (Alpha) Component: Cloud Base Image | Resolution: Keywords: | ------------------------------+-------------------------------- Changes (by mfalb):
* cc: markus.falb@… (added)
#62: notification of pending security updates in motd ------------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: mattdm | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Fedora 21 (Alpha) Component: Cloud Base Image | Resolution: Keywords: | ------------------------------+--------------------------------
Comment (by langdon):
I am not sure if this is the right place to answer this (vs the bug reference in comment:1), but the reason many cloud instances do not get updated is because they operate in a MTTR vs. a MTBF model. In other words, an instance should never get updates, rather, when updates are required, a new instance (w/ the updates) should be created, the application tested, traffic migrated, and then the original instance is destroyed.
In recognition that most computing stereotypes are well shy of the 80% rule :), I think having this function, perhaps even by default, is a good thing, as long as it is "disable-able" easily. In many environments, the performance and/or network hit of collecting this information would not be acceptable.
#62: notification of pending security updates in motd ------------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: mattdm | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Fedora 21 (Alpha) Component: Cloud Base Image | Resolution: Keywords: | ------------------------------+--------------------------------
Comment (by mattdm):
What: A system to display a count (or list?) of updates waiting to be applied
Where: New code needs to be written. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=995537 could help.
Why: Helpful to users. Side-effect: we can count checkins.
When: nice by F21 release.
Who: (TBD)
#62: notification of pending security updates in motd ------------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: mattdm | Owner: rtnpro Type: task | Status: assigned Priority: normal | Milestone: Fedora 21 (Alpha) Component: Cloud Base Image | Resolution: Keywords: | ------------------------------+-------------------------------- Changes (by rtnpro):
* owner: => rtnpro * status: new => assigned
#62: notification of pending security updates in motd ------------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: mattdm | Owner: rtnpro Type: task | Status: assigned Priority: normal | Milestone: Fedora 21 (Alpha) Component: Cloud Base Image | Resolution: Keywords: | ------------------------------+--------------------------------
Comment (by rtnpro):
Started working on it here: https://github.com/rtnpro/fedora-motd
#62: notification of pending security updates in motd ------------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: mattdm | Owner: rtnpro Type: task | Status: assigned Priority: normal | Milestone: Fedora 21 (Alpha) Component: Cloud Base Image | Resolution: Keywords: | ------------------------------+--------------------------------
Comment (by rtnpro):
Could some help with building Fedora cloud base image with the above patch applied to the kickstart file?
#62: notification of pending security updates in motd ------------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: mattdm | Owner: rtnpro Type: task | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: Fedora 21 (Alpha) Component: Cloud Base Image | Resolution: fixed Keywords: | ------------------------------+-------------------------------- Changes (by kushal):
* status: assigned => closed * resolution: => fixed
Comment:
Closing this ticket as part of trac clean up process. If you want to reopen, please reopen it after we move to pagure.io as atomic-wg.
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