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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi people,</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I just set up one of systems to run up2date overnite</FONT></B></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and this morning when I look the file /var/log/rpmpkgs</FONT></B></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I see in it the following packages:</FONT></B></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> kernel-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL.i686.rpm</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> kernel-2.4.21-27.0.4.EL.i686.rpm</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> kernel-2.4.21-40.EL.i686.rpm</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> kernel-2.4.21-47.EL.i686.rpm</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-19.i386.rpm</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> kernel-smp-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL.i686.rpm</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> kernel-smp-2.4.21-27.0.4.EL.i686.rpm</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> kernel-smp-2.4.21-40.EL.i686.rpm</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> kernel-smp-2.4.21-47.EL.i686.rpm</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> kernel-utils-2.4-8.37.15.i386.rpm</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Does this means that a new kernel was installed?</FONT></B></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I guess not because 'uname -a' gives me:</FONT></B></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Linux baseball 2.4.21-27.0.4.ELsmp #1 SMP</FONT></B></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">So what does 'up2date' do? Just downloads packages</FONT></B></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">to your machine and it is up to you to installed them?</FONT></B></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I also see this from my logwatch</FONT></B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">:</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Creating rollback packages...</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Updating transaction list</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Modifying bootloader config to include the new kernel info</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Adding 2.4.21-47.EL to bootloader config</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Adding 2.4.21-47.EL to bootloader config</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Adding 2.4.21-47.ELsmp to bootloader config</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Installing the kernel via grub</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Running /sbin/grubby --default-kernel</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Creating rollback packages...</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Just wondering what it all means.......</FONT></B></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks,</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Néstor :-)</FONT></SPAN>
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