[CentOS] Question about updates

Tate Belden wyoham at gmail.com
Sat Feb 16 20:14:12 UTC 2019


One can also do the 'yum-cron' dance to automate updates.
Good writeup and description here:

https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-setup-automatic-security-updates-on-centos-7/

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 11:37 PM Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com>
wrote:

> On 16/02/19 6:59 PM, Ralf Prengel wrote:
> > Hallo,
> > as a beginner using centos I‘ve a question about updates.
> > What it the right repo for getting all security and other updates?
> >
> http://mirror.eu.oneandone.net/linux/distributions/centos/7.6.1810/updates/
> > for example?
>
> If you have installed CentOS 7 it should have everything in place for
> regular updates.
>
> You simply need to invoke "sudo yum update" on a regular basis to ensure
> all the available updates are installed. Yum and rpm take care of
> sorting out where to check and apply updates from.
>
> HTH.
>
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ralf
> >
> >
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