This is a Linux VM pinger.slac.stanford.edu
It is centrally managed. Thus required patches are automatically applied. The machine is scanned and if you are notified that a reboot is required to activate the patches then if you have sudo access you can proceed as follows:
sudo yum -y update sudo reboot Example: 455cottrell@pinger:~$sudo yum -y update [sudo] password for cottrell: Sorry, try again. [sudo] password for cottrell: Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, security Setting up Update Process dag | 951 B 00:00 dag-noarch | 951 B 00:00 epel | 4.7 kB 00:00 epel/primary_db | 5.1 MB 00:00 openafs-stanford | 951 B 00:00 sl | 951 B 00:00 slac-noarch | 951 B 00:00 slac-rhel-i386-server-6 | 4.1 kB 00:00 slac-rhel-i386-server-6-thirdparty-oracle-java | 3.3 kB 00:00 slac-rhel-i386-server-dts2-6 | 3.3 kB 00:00 slac-rhel-i386-server-optional-6 | 4.1 kB 00:00 slac-rhel-i386-server-rh-common-6 | 3.3 kB 00:00 slac-rhel-i386-server-supplementary-6 | 3.6 kB 00:00 No Packages marked for Update 456cottrell@pinger:~$sudo reboot 457cottrell@pinger:~$ Broadcast message from cottrell@pinger (/dev/pts/1) at 13:43 ... The system is going down for reboot NOW! ####################################################