[ale] Redhat security updates available on RHN only ?

[Jerry Z. Yu]

	I couldn't do that on custom secure servers. I may try it on my 
home machine though.
	Thanks Josh for the 'it is free' tip. I succsfully signed up a 
corporate account on RHN w/o registering any system or paying $$. I 
downloaded new bind-* RPMs off it (although  they are just the same 
version as those available on update.redhat.com & its mirrors. Maybe the 
'only available from the Red Hat Network' statement is just some 
smoke/mirror thing.

On 13 Aug 2002, cfowler wrote:

#On the machine you wish to upgrade, run 'rhn_register' and register that
#machine.  Then use up2date to update the packages.
#
#
#On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 12:34, Jerry Z. Yu wrote:
#> Fulton, I found it on http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-119.html for 
#> the bind* packages. link to errata packages are removed, and the exact 
#> quote from the bottom of the page is
#> "The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network"
#> 
#> The links on RHN page are talking about subscription and fees. Thus I had 
#> the impression that's the only way, although it didn't mention it is 
#> fee-based or the other way around.
#> 
#> 
#> On 13 Aug 2002, Josh Freeman wrote:
#> 
#> #you can join the red hat network for free. Yes, it's a bit questionable,
#> #but it is free.
#> #
#> #And up2date rocks.
#> #
#> #Josh
#> #
#> #On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 11:52, Jerry Z. Yu wrote:
#> #> I were following errata page on RedHat. For bind* updates for RH73, it 
#> #> says "The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat 
#> #> Network".  however, I can get those packages from anonymous  
#> #> ftp://updates.redhat.com.  we didn't subscribe to RHN and no plan to do so 
#> #> in near future either. My question is, is this violates RedHat's rights ? 
#> #> Or they become ridiculous to start to charge for timely security fix?
#> #> 
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Jerry Z. Yu					+1-404-487-8544 (O)
systems engineer				z.yu at voicecom.com
is support, voicecom, llc			www.voicecom.com


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