How to verify updates are installed using subscription management?

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Greetings. I receive several errata and update notifications, but how does one check to see if the desktop is being updated? Is there a way to view installed updates? Thank you. (RHEL desktop 5.9)

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Hi Mark, how are you?

You can check the updated packages in logs. Basically to yum and rhn comunication we have two useful logs:

/var/log/up2date -> Will show you the RHN comunication and the conectivity status

/var/log/yum.log -> Installed, removed, updated packages

You can also run the history from yum to have this information:

# yum history list

# yum info ID -> Where ID you should replace with the ID from the list command above.

Thank you for the response. The system was not receiving updates after the supplimentary software install. Running yum update seems to have fixed the issue.

Loaded plugins: product-id, security, subscription-manager
This system is receiving updates from Red Hat Subscription Management.
rhel-5-client-rhev-agent-rpms                                                                                                         | 3.1 kB     00:00     
rhel-5-desktop-rpms                                                                                                                   | 3.7 kB     00:00     
rhel-5-desktop-supplementary-rpms                                                                                                     | 3.5 kB     00:00     
Skipping security plugin, no data
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update
 

It did also have a broken samba package, but I think it has been resolved by removing it.

Thanks again,

M

Glad to hear you got this fixed, Mark. Thanks for following up.

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