what has 'yum update' done?

[Frank Murphy]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:51:50 +0200
lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:

> Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 00:51:05 +0200
> > lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Why not make it one of the great features of Fedora?  Then take
> >> it to the next step and make systemd send mails in case a service
> >> couldn't be started or has issues,
> >
> > You can do that yourself currently.
> 
> By polling the information with 'systemctl --failed list-units'?

You can parse, the /var/log/messages for such,
or journalctl 

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/watchdog.html
Look for paragraph contains "on-failure" ,
about some ideas to keep service moving along.

> Or is it somehow possible to make systemd actively send you
> something on events, like when a service suddenly fails?

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html
Look for "OnFailure="

Using both together, when tired of restarting,
get it to call home.

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