Hi Lionel, I run a local update server and pull the updates down with YUP. We've never had any of our servers register themselves with Novell (not even sure they have firewall access even). I know this doesn't really help you in your current situation, but it might be an option for you in the future.
I'm not sure what suse-register requires, but for pulling down the updates to the local update server, I had to hit the Novell "Mirror Credentials" site to get the required username/password: (login required) https://secure-www.novell.com/center/regadmin/jsps/mirrorcreds_app.jsp This'll also tell you the URLs you can use to download the patches, either to your local mirror OR manually via your web browser or wget/curl. Leland On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Lionel Dyck <[email protected]> wrote: > I've a challenge that I'm hoping someone here can assist with. > > I've a server that failed to connect to the Novell center for updates. I > checked the novell center and it hadn't connected for over a year (I was > able to connect 4 months ago to do the SLES 10 sp2 to sp3 upgrade so I > don't know what the last contact date really means). > > Last week I checked YaST Online Updates and it would not connect. I called > the novell customer resolution center who suggested removing the server > from the novell center and then running suse_register again. I did that > with no luck. They then suggested following the guidelines in TID 3303599, > which basically says to delete all of the zmd files related to the > registration. I did that with no luck either. (Note I had another server > with a similar issue and the TID steps resolved things there). > > Has anyone any recommendations to resolve this as I need to connect to do > a YaST Online Update to get the latest kernel update. > > Thanks in Advance > > Lionel > > > Lionel B. Dyck <>< > z/Linux Specialist > IBM Corporation > Global Technology Services - Kaiser Account > Work: 925-926-5332 > E-Mail: [email protected] > AIM: lbdyck | Yahoo IM: lbdyck | GTalk: lbdyck > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
