[CentOS] how to keep updated

Wed Feb 1 15:04:08 UTC 2006
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 01:30 -0700, Michael Best wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 22:19 -0800, spart cus wrote:
> > 
> >>hi guys,
> >>just recently install centos on my machine.  how  can  i be always
> >>updated from patches? should i run up2date and install everything ?
> >>
> > 
> > ---
> > use yum instead
> > 
> > # yum update
> > 
> > Craig
> 
> 
> Indeed, and to get notification emails sent to root use:
> 
> chkconfig yum on
> service yum start
> 
> which allows:
> /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron
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except for the control freak in me that wants to see ***in real time***
what changes are going to be made ***prior*** to them occurring.

but it's an excellent option (automatic - nightly updates)

Craig