On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 18:58, Matt Alexander wrote:
> 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
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good point - I believe logrotate handles that chore for some services
once a week. In fact, I had a server that updated during the week and
the apache server errored on restart during logrotate.

Craig