[ale] Redhat security updates available on RHN only ?

[David Bronson]

Jonathan,

"Current" seems to be the tool that best emulates up2date. See:

http://www.biology.duke.edu/computer/unix/current/

I would expect that once again, open source will triumph and as Current
and apt-rpm gain in popularity, that Redhat will remember who it was
that brought them to the dance. It would be nice to see Redhat accept
the additional help for its users and make users aware of the
open-source alternatives to its mainly subscription product.

David

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:56:10PM -0400, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> Interesting point:  Here at Tech, the different departments choose a
> single box to connect to RHN, and download all updates automagically
> (cron jobs, probably).  Then the other machines connect to that box to
> download and apply the updates.  Is that not what you have in mind?
> 
> Also, don't all the RedHat updates appear in the mirror sites in the
> redhat/updates/ directory?  It does on the ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu
> mirror.
> 
> Is the problem that the RHN up2date agent cannot be redirected to a
> different server?  I'll have to check with the other CSRs to see how
> they do the auto-updating from a single machine, and let you know back.
> They may have a trick or two I don't know about.
> 
> I wonder if it would be possible to redirect (via tables/chains) the
> connectiosn to the redhat servers to a local server?  HMMM
> 
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> I don't expect Redhat to download files to my machine at all.
> 
> <big snip>
> 
> 
> 


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