You can also look in /root/install.log to see what the installer installed. Or in /root/upgrade.log if it was a upgrade. -Connie Sieh csieh@xxxxxxxx On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Paul Pianta wrote: > Juan Fernandez wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > > > I installed yum on a server and issued the command "yum update" > > > > > > > > Does it upgrades only the packages installed or it upgrades all the > > rpm in the distribution regardless of what I installed ? > > > > > > > > I am asking because when I installed RH 9 I didn't installed sendmail > > for example, and when I ran yum update I saw in the command output > > something about sendmail... > > > > > > > > And I asked myself what yum is doing because I didn't installed send mail. > > > > > > > > Then I tried rpm -q and I received that an answer that sendmail Is > > installed!!! > > > RedHat can be a bit sneaky with sendmail. You may think that it wasn't > installed when you installed the system but i betcha that it was. > > Run 'rpm -qa --last|grep sendmail' and that will give you the date that > all of your rpms were installed. Check the date for sendmail and that > will tell you if it got installed recently by yum - or if it got > installed when the system was installed. > > pantz > >
