On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 04:57, Schmeits, Roger wrote: > How does one handle packages updates on Linux servers? I have noticed on > Redhat you pay a subscribition fee whereas Caldera it is a free service.
this is not true of a *single* installation (but I note you use the word serverS) the up2date package of Redhat 7.1/7.2 is straight out excellent, It works, and it's a no-brainer 'automatic' update and install. I run it once / week and just let it do it's thing. you first have to type the magic-words rhn_register (it's also available in system->rhn as an icon. If you do in fact have multiple machines, all based on the same distro level, then you can tell up2date to retain the rpm files which it uploads for you. Copy them over and install in the standard manner using kpackage or whatever. It was this package incidentally that made me move to Redhat. I was tired of extracting teeth to get simple things done, like upgrades. -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
