How To Patch Red Hat Linux Servers?
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1. Log into your Red Hat Linux server as the root user.
2. Update the local package index with the following command:
# yum update
3. Install the missing security patches with the following command:
# yum —security update
4. Once all available security patches have been installed, verify that they were applied successfully by running the following command:
# yum info updates
5. Reboot the server to ensure that the changes take effect:
# reboot