Everything installed on the machine had been installed with "yum". So I assumed that meant that it would also be updated by "yum" if an update was available from the distro. On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>wrote: > On 12/28/2011 04:29 AM, Bennett Haselton wrote: > > I was asking because I had a server that did get broken into, despite > > having yum-updatesd running and a strong password. He said that even if > > the software component compromised was a part of the updates being > dished out from the distro ( and therefore likely covered via the > yum-updatesd? ) > > - KB > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >