A wrap up to our series on Linux Patching - this final article is a brief review of the steps that we examined across all of these articles. There is a lot to consider when patching your Linux environment and it's well worth planning out your approach before you start.

What's the best way of rolling back Linux patches? Undoubtedly the best way is to use the 'yum' transaction capabilities to manage the whole process. Not only is it easier, but it's totally reliable.

We're now ready how to actually apply the Linux security patches. We discuss the various options and work through the 'update-minimal' option, sharing some handy tips along the way.

This article looks at cataloging the state of a Linux system - both before and after a patching run, important for both verification and auditing purposes.

This article looks at some of the powerful tooling available with the Linux 'rpm' command, a lower level tool that allows you to examine the packages installed on a Linux system.

Using yum utilities to help in the Linux patching process

Hi All, This next article in the series discusses how to enable and disable locally available repositories. Surprisingly, this is actually important to do, since if we were to try patching with the

Hi All, Continuing on with the Linux patching series, this article looks at how to make sure the newly set up patching repositories are kept up to date on a nightly basis. This

Hi All, So onto part #2 of this series - setting up the Linux repositories that will be accessed from our VMs. The reason this is required is because in a secure system

Hi All, As we all know, patching is an important and necessary part of the Support work we do. In terms of Linux, patching of Linux servers is a vital part of ensuring