On 18 Oct 2002, Craig White wrote:

> up2date -u
>
> It's been in Redhat distro's since 7.0
>
> It completely handles installing updates - by default, all except
> kernel.
>
> you can set it up as a cron job once a week and you'll never know that
> the updates are being downloaded & installed unless you check the log.
>
> Of course the debian folks had to sound off about the apt-get, which is
> available for redhat but it is 3rd party.

One thing to be aware of is that up2date does not restart services after
they've been upgraded.  So, for example, let's say you're running Apache
and you update to the latest Apache RPM using up2date.  Unless you
manually stop are start Apache after up2date runs, you'll still be running
the older version.
~M