Suma (smitty suma) is a pretty cool automated patch downloader for AIX. I tweaked it a little bit to send me emails only when it finds something new. Just put this in cron and don’t worry about the cron setup through suma itself.
################################################################# # Title : sumacheck - Goes to IBM and gets new patches # Author : John Rigler # Date : 01-13-2009 # Requires : ksh ################################################################# /usr/suma/bin/suma -x -a RqType=Latest -a Action=Download \ -a Repeats=n > /tmp/$$.sumafile grep SUCCEED /tmp/$$.sumafile > /tmp/$$.sumasuccess if [[ $? -eq 0 ]] then mail -s "New Packages from IBM" userid@company.com \ < /tmp/$$.sumasuccess fi rm /tmp/$$.sumafile /tmp/$$.sumasuccess