I am using redhat 9 on my web server. Since Redhat is dropping support for up2date I decided to install yum. I downloaded to my server through lynx and then installed it as well as some dependent packages. The command to run yum manually is:
# yum update

checks for updates
# yum check-update

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I also started using ftp over ssh.
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