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zemotard
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To be informed when a patch / new release is available

Hi, is it possible to be be informed by mail when a patch / new release is available ?

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MR-T
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I use the RSS feeds from VMware.

http://vmware.simplefeed.net/subscription

Or, just check out this forum.

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thorsten_tritts
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Hi,

I wrote me a skript within bash which gets the content from download page and parses the useful info out. After that, it sends me a mail with all available updates for ESX 3.01, 3.0.0 and VC.

Maybe it's useful for you :

#!/bin/bash

wget http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/vi3_patches.html

cat vi3_patches.html | sed 's/<\[^>]*>//g' | grep -ixA10 'ESX Server 3.0.1' | mail -s "ESX Updates" yourmailaddress

Not beautyful, but working good. Just cron that once a day/week/month (or what ever you like) and you'll get info about new updates automatically.

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