> Speaking of security, I know there's been a thread recently about
patching Redhat distros. For > the new admin, it can be a bit daunting
trying to figure out where to start. Of all the updated > packages on
Redhat's site, how do I determine which ones I should download and
install? I don't > want to add new packages to the server (there's
already too much installed) but I haven't 
> patched anything, and I know my RH 7 needs attention.

Wow, that's a tough one. I need to do that myself. this is where
documentation would have been useful to create in building the server. I
plan on trying to build a list of installed packages by querying the RPM
database, and printing that off. That should give me three things:
1) packages that I need to check;
2) version levels of those packages;
3) some documentation on my system.

Then I can either manually update, or try using some installed update
tool. Maybe this approach will work for you. Anyone, have a better
solution, or a script to handle this?

Brian

P.S. Glad I could point you in a useful direction.