To find out the last patch date of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server you may use the rpm command or see the /var/log/yum.log file.

Find Last Patch Date of RHEL Server

Login to the server and open the terminal or connect to the server through ssh using PuTTY etc. and run the command rpm -qa –last to find out the date of the rpm packages on which they had updated on an RHEL server.

[user@dbappweb.com ~]$ rpm -qa --last
iwl3160-firmware-25.30.13.0-76.el7.noarch     Sun 02 Aug 2020 07:09:05 PM IST
NetworkManager-config-server-1.18.4-3.el7.noarch Sun 02 Aug 2020 07:09:04 PM IST
iwl7260-firmware-25.30.13.0-76.el7.noarch     Sun 02 Aug 2020 07:09:04 PM IST
iwl6050-firmware-41.28.5.1-76.el7.noarch      Sun 02 Aug 2020 07:09:04 PM IST
iwl6000g2a-firmware-18.168.6.1-76.el7.noarch  Sun 02 Aug 2020 07:09:04 PM IST
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You can also get the date of patching on an RHEL server by checking the /var/log/yum.log file.

[user@dbappweb.com ~]$ sudo tail /var/log/yum.log
Aug 02 19:04:46 Updated: libgcc-4.8.5-39.el7.x86_64
Aug 02 19:04:46 Updated: redhat-release-server-7.8-2.el7.x86_64
Aug 02 19:04:47 Updated: 1:grub2-common-2.02-0.86.el7_8.noarch
Aug 02 19:04:47 setup-2.8.71-11.el7.noarch: 100
Aug 02 19:04:47 Updated: 1:liberation-fonts-common-1.07.2-16.el7.noarch
Aug 02 19:04:49 Updated: filesystem-3.2-25.el7.x86_64
Aug 02 19:04:50 Updated: 1:grub2-pc-modules-2.02-0.86.el7_8.noarch
Aug 02 19:04:50 Updated: 32:bind-license-9.11.4-16.P2.el7_8.6.noarch
Aug 02 19:04:52 Updated: kbd-misc-1.15.5-15.el7.noarch
Aug 02 19:04:52 Installed: dejavu-fonts-common-2.33-6.el7.noarch

 

Get the rpm Packages Update History

You can use the following command to check the update history of a particular package.

$ rpm -q <package-name> --last

Example: Below command shows the update history of the kernel.

[user@dbappweb.com ~]$ rpm -q kernel --last
kernel-3.10.0-1127.18.2.el7.x86_64            Sun 02 Aug 2020 07:07:48 PM IST
kernel-3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7.x86_64             Sun 20 Oct 2019 10:09:48 AM IST
kernel-3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64             Thu 04 Oct 2018 01:56:55 PM IST

For a complete package, update history use the following command.

[user@dbappweb.com ~]$ rpm -qa --last

Last Updated: Aug 03, 2020

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