[Centos] Re: YUM updates

[skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx (seth vidal)]

On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 15:30 -0700, Rick Graves wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> > The easy way to make sure you are up to date with
> > all the latest patches is to run:
> > # yum update
> 
> There is an even easier way -- tell cron to apply YUM
> updates every day.  
> 
> There is a HowTo on the cAos site here:
> 
> http://www.caosity.org/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=102&op=page&SubMenu=
> 

and for the paranoid among you.

you can use yum check-update to display the updates that should take
place from cron, if there are no updates, nothing will be outputted.

-sv