"jailbait, is there I can automate it rather than search for the updates?"
As far as I know all of the automatic update methods require you to pay a distribution for support. I find the security updates by reading
http://linuxtoday.com/ every day. You don't need a distribution specific warning. If Debian posts a security advisory for sendmail then I know I need to install the version of sendmail mentioned in the Debian warning. I Google for that version as a Fedora rpm and probably end up installing it as a tarball. I use checkinstall to convert tarballs to rpms.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=181146
I used to use SuSE. Even when I was not on SuSE support (which was most of the time) I could still access SuSE's security patch web site. So I could occasionally run through the SuSE security updates and download all that I did not already have using gftp. I will be switching back to SuSE within 2 weeks for a variety of reasons including the fact that SuSE is more lenient about us freeloaders applying their security patches. This is where being distribution independent comes in handy. As far as I am concerned I have no problems switching among the rpm based distributions (Fedora, Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSE) and I do so now and then for fairly minor reasons.
The alternative to learning to do it by hand is to pay for support. If you want to pay for support then I recommend that you switch to SuSE. SuSE is cheaper and slightly better than Red Hat.
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