Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Wuxi Ixuw <w7u64xi7 at gmail.com> wrote: >> I am not using cent os for my daily computing tasks at home or work but >> just for the vps hosting website. >> you mean to use web control panel back end or you mean another issue? > > I don't have any idea what a 'web control panel back end is' since > that is not a stock centos feature. CentOS itself packages updates as I'd guess he's talking cPanel. > soon as possible after they are released and on a non VPS system you > would use 'yum update' to install them. And normally you want to do > that as soon as possible because when the updates are published, the > vulnerabilities that they fix are obvious and often even explained in > public. Actually, I assume that my hosting provider is regularly updating system software. I should probably look, but I think I'm paying for that, as part of what they do... which is also very much to their own benefit. mark