how to keep updated

[mbest at pendragon.org (Michael Best)]

Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 22:19 -0800, spart cus wrote:
> 
>>hi guys,
>>just recently install centos on my machine.  how  can  i be always
>>updated from patches? should i run up2date and install everything ?
>>
> 
> ---
> use yum instead
> 
> # yum update
> 
> Craig


Indeed, and to get notification emails sent to root use:

chkconfig yum on
service yum start

which allows:
/etc/cron.daily/yum.cron

to run.

-Mike