Summary

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.