DownloadDrupal updates in version 6 were causing some issue from within our network.
We tried update status proxy with no success. None of the patches seemed to make much difference.
In the end I put together a perl script to check local site for installed modules - compare to update site on drupal and to produce email with attachments of out of date modules.
This consists of:
1. Configuration file drupal-update.cfg (/usr/local/scripts/drupal-update.cfg)
2. drupal-modules.ignore
This is the file to list all modules that you wish ignore from being looked up
# list of modules to ignore
# module_name
3. Perl script drupal-update.pl
4. Cron entries
## Run drupal update script
30 7 * * * root cd /usr/local/scripts/; ./drupal-update.pl ./drupal-update.cfg security
40 7 * * 1 root cd /usr/local/scripts/; ./drupal-update.pl ./drupal-update.cfg
First runs every day looking for security upates
Second runs every monday to list all other updates
Follow drupal-update
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Just to add, this should work on any version of drupal, within the configuration file you define drupal update url and version which in our case was 6.x This should drupal_version = 7.x Simply update the version to match version number you are running and configure the rest of the config file to receive notifications. the script as per crontab runs with 2 arguments. # Run weekly ./drupal-update.pl ./config-file.cfg - this will send emails of all updates # Run regular ./drupal-update.pl ./config-file.cfg security - this will send emails of all security updates