On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
>
> > I went through all this with Redhat yesterday. 'up2date' will not work
> > without a valid authorization. IMO, 'up2date' should connect to
> > 'priority' ftp servers if you have authorization, and connect to
> > non-priority servers if you do not have authorization. At the very least,
> > 'up2date' should work for non-authorized accounts in the case of updating
> > of software that have security or system threatening problems.
>
> Hmmm... Sounds like it's back to "autorpm" then...
>
> I agree, up2date needs to be able to access non-priority sites
> and mirror sites. At least autorpm can be configured to use just
> about any local, nfs, or ftp repository. Autorpm is on powertools.
>
Thanx for the reminder on 'autorpm'. I've never used it, but I'll check
it out.
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