seth vidal wrote: > 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. check-update sounds better than putting yum update in a cron job. Only a mad man would do that! Much better to run a daily cron which rsyncs your local patch repository. That way you get an email which indicates the new packages and you can then test & deploy at your leisure. When it comes time to install on your other machines, the patches are already local. John. > > -sv > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at caosity.org > http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- John Newbigin - Computer Systems Officer School of Information Technology Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.it.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin