fionbarr has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've been asked to write Perl code to interrogate the patch level on Unix/Linux servers and potentially install a new patch. Suggestions appreciated. OS is Redhat Linux primarily.

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Re: patches to Linux
by blue_cowdawg (Monsignor) on Jun 16, 2014 at 14:28 UTC

    start off with researching the rpm command. Starting with rpm -q

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      thanks
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