Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-08 Thread MHR
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 6:10 AM, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 22:51 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: >> 2008/12/8 William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Often, in a desktop environment, just a telnet 3, telnet 5 command >> >> You probably mean "telinit 3" and

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 22:51 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > 2008/12/8 William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Often, in a desktop environment, just a telnet 3, telnet 5 command > > You probably mean "telinit 3" and "telinit 5". Yep. My fingers (or brain) slurred that one! :-( > > But we are ta

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-08 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/12/8 William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Often, in a desktop environment, just a telnet 3, telnet 5 command You probably mean "telinit 3" and "telinit 5". But we are talking to a veteran of FreeBSD so he probably knows such stuff already, shouldn't he? Cheers, --Amos _

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread John R Pierce
William L. Maltby wrote: > Also, if a package that is currently running has been updated, or that > package is currently using a package which has been updated and you want > the currently running things to start using the new stuff _now_, you'll > want to restart those packages. Until those packag

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:21 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > > > Now my question is what are the commands for Centos to fetch ,update > > and install, all the packages installed on the server. I would like to > > use Yum. Any help would be great. > > "yum update" will do it for you. Normally, you

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread Vandaman
Darrell Betts wrote: > Now my question is what are the commands for Centos to > fetch ,update > and install, all the packages installed on the server. I > would like to > use Yum. Any help would be great. > Try "yum --help" and "man yum" which have a lot of info. Also the CentOS docs on

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread Niki Kovacs
Darrell Betts a écrit : > Now my question is what are the commands for Centos to fetch ,update > and install, all the packages installed on the server. I would like to > use Yum. Any help would be great. > I wrote an abstract on basic Yum usage. It's in French, but it's not hard to guess

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread Barry Brimer
> Now my question is what are the commands for Centos to fetch ,update > and install, all the packages installed on the server. I would like to > use Yum. Any help would be great. Welcome Darrell. Here is the summary version: To install a specific package, such as postfix from a repository that

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Darrell Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using Freebsd for along time. I have a client of mine that > wants me to use Centos for his email server and web server. Anyway > with Freebsd to update the packages file you use the following commands. > portsn

Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread Tosh
Darrell Betts wrote: > I have been using Freebsd for along time. I have a client of mine that > wants me to use Centos for his email server and web server. Anyway > with Freebsd to update the packages file you use the following commands. > portsnap fetch fetches all the current port trees > portsna

[CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages

2008-12-07 Thread Darrell Betts
I have been using Freebsd for along time. I have a client of mine that wants me to use Centos for his email server and web server. Anyway with Freebsd to update the packages file you use the following commands. portsnap fetch fetches all the current port trees portsnap update adds all the new p