How to Use AutoRPM to maintain your RedHat Linux System

One of the issues involved in managing your RedHat Linux system is how to keep it current. Using AutoRPM, you can automatically (or interactively) update your existing programs that have been installed via RPM. Requirements to run AutoRPM are:

Perl 5 or better installed either locally, or in /apps
CUE /site directory mounted on your system as /site
The Perl LibNet module installed (if perl is local to your system)

You can run AutoRPM in 3 different ways in order to update your system:

do_security -- This script invokes AutoRPM to upgrade the packages on your system that have known security problems. The upgrades will take place automatically without your intervention.
do_all -- This script invokes AutoRPM to upgrade all of the packages on your system for which RedHat has released updates.
do_interactive -- This script onvokes the interactive version of AutoRPM s that you can select which updated packages you wish to install on your system.

Directions to run AutoRPM:

Mount jlabsite:/site as /site
If CUE /apps is not mounted, then run
- rpm -U /site/CC/patches/Linux/perl-libnet-1.0605-2.noarch.rpm
If you want to install just the security patches, run
- /site/CC/patches/Linux/bin/do_security
If you want to install all of the patches, run
- /site/CC/patches/Linux/bin/do_all
If you want to install just those patches that you select, then run
- /site/CC/patches/Linux/bin/do_interactive

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