Hey,> The easy way to make sure you are up to date with > all the latest patches is to run: > # yum updateThere is an even easier way -- tell cron to apply YUM updates every day. There is a HowTo on the cAos site here: http://www.caosity.org/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=102&op=page&SubMenu Rick
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 15:30 -0700, Rick Graves wrote:> Hey, > > > The easy way to make sure you are up to date with > > all the latest patches is to run: > > # yum update > > There is an even easier way -- tell cron to apply YUM > updates every day. > > There is a HowTo on the cAos site here: > > http://www.caosity.org/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=102&op=page&SubMenu>and for the paranoid among you. you can use yum check-update to display the updates that should take place from cron, if there are no updates, nothing will be outputted. -sv
And you may want to run in non interactive mode ( so you don't have to prompt ): yum -y update You can also run yum as a daemon. Issue "man yum" at the command prompt. On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 15:30:47 -0700 (PDT), Rick Graves <gravesricharde at yahoo.com> wrote:> Hey, > > > The easy way to make sure you are up to date with > > all the latest patches is to run: > > # yum update > > There is an even easier way -- tell cron to apply YUM > updates every day. > > There is a HowTo on the cAos site here: > > http://www.caosity.org/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=102&op=page&SubMenu> > Rick > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at caosity.org > http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- Beau Henderson JustManaged.com - Affordable Linux and FreeBSD administration services.