up2date on kernel

[Saqib.N.Ali at seagate.com]

> thanks for the info.  While checking whether up2date is running or
> not, I have verified the rhnsd is running. Does it put something in
> syslog if there are a) no updates b) some failure to connect c) kernel
> updates that should be installed manually? I've looked in
> /var/log/messages but don't see anything that is tagged rhnsd. I've
> looked in /var/log/up2date and that just contains the info from the
> last successfull run.

I am not sure what log you are looking for. But ff you d/l and install the
new kernel manually, you can modify the /etc/lilo.conf to have multiple
kernel entries, so that you can fall-back to a older kernel if something
goes wrong.

In Peace,
Saqib Ali
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