Cisco ASA and PIX Firewall Handbook

In this chapter, you learned how to use the Red Hat Network agent and the Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool to keep your Fedora Core 4 computer system up to date. Specifically, you learned how to

• Configure the Fedora Core 4 system to use Red Hat Network

• See updates and mark them for installation using the Red Hat Network agent, up2date

• Configure the Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool to provide you with ongoing status information about Red Hat Network updates

• See a summary of update data and start the Red Hat Network agent using the Alert Notification Tool

• Perform command-line updates and Fedora Core 4 component installations using yum

Using the tools that you have learned about in this chapter, you should be able to keep your Fedora Core 4 system current and safe from malicious network users or unstable applications.