Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 06:57, Karanbir Singh wrote: > >>Dexter Stowers wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> I have a server that has been running Centos for about a year but >>>I have not checked to see if there have been any changes to update. >>>Has there been any updates or fixes for the update? I have not been in >>>the loop for a while now. Thanks! >> >>take a look at the 'yum' package - and the options available with it. >>eg. 'yum list' will tell you what you need to know. >> >>Also, its a good idea to subscribe to the CentOS-announce mailing list, >>all package updates are announced there. ( http://lists.centos.org/ ) >> >>Setting up rss feeds for the repositories as well, so you could / would >>/ should be able to subscribe to only the repo+arch combinations you >>want to stay informed about... Lookout for an announcement about this >>shortly. > > > Or you can just do a 'yum update' regularly and the right thing > will happen. > depends on what you do, on a lot of production machines, people prefer to first know about the issues being fixed, and testing updates before they go live. but, i guess that depends a lot on what you do and what your machines do :) - K -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq