updates: how to receive warnings on new updates ?

[Paul Howarth]

joao.miguel.ferreira.19740720 at portugalmail.pt wrote:
> Hello all at Fedora,
> 
> I'd like to know if there is a simple way to receive notifications (e-mail)
> about updated packeges that are released.
> 
> I'm the administrator of some Fedora servers and I would like to keep them
> updated but I prefer not to have automatic updates. So I need to be informed of
> updates released so that I can have my servers ok.
> 
> Can I receive e-mails ?  Is it possible to configure up2date to check for
> updates and send me e-mail ? any ideas ?

You could run "yum check-update" as a cron job, and you'd be mailed the 
output if there is any (assuming root's mail went to you).

Paul.