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Malloy, John wrote: > What about updating the system? If you want to use up2date, you need to purchase a license from Redhat. There are a couple other options if this is a production machine that you're unable to reinstall. If you can reinstall, and you absolutely don't want to purchase a license, you're better off installing CentOS, which is essentially the same thing as RHEL; CentOS is a recompilation of the RHEL sources, and actively tracks all RHEL updates. CentOS uses "yum" for updating, and I imagine it would be possible to maek RHEL work with yum, though it would probably be a lot of effort; reinstalling with CentOS would likely be much easier. Another option is to mirror all the RHEL updates on a regular basis, and then rum "rpm -F *.rpm" in the mirror directory whenever there are new updates. The "-F" tels rpm to "freshen" the installed packages, and will only update packages that are already installed. If dependencies changed in the newer version of a package, the "rpm -F" might fail, and then you'd have to install the missing dependencies before trying the "rpm -F" again. Ultimately, your best bet is to reinstall with CentOS if you can. -- John Abreau IT Manager Zuken USA 238 Littleton Rd., Suite 100 Westford, MA 01886 T: 978-392-1777 F: 978-692-4725 M: 978-764-8934 E: John.Abreau at zuken.com W: www.zuken.com
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