[TriLUG] SSH needs updating again.

[Joseph Tate]

Jeff Bollinger wrote:

> Michael Thompson wrote:
> | I installed yum for RH 9 and was able to enable nighly updates with
> | 'service yum start'.  (ran 'chkconfig --level 35 yum on' to enable it
> | during boot...
> |
> | --mike
> |
>
> What was the command for Yum that only downloaded the packages, and not
> install/upgrade them?  I'm getting Kernel downloads that I don't want to
> be installed automatically.
>
> Thanks!
> Jeff

Yum list updates will do it.  Check out man yum for more options.  You 
could also put kernel updates in the exclude line in your yum.conf 
file.  That way it won't update your kernels from yum.  (Glibc is 
another common addition).  Man yum.conf to see this and other 
configuration options.