Re: Suggestioned updates

From: Jason Kohles (jkohles@redhat.com)
Date: 12/19/01


Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:51:11 -0600
From: Jason Kohles <jkohles@redhat.com>
To: Deon Grobler <deon@bluewave.com>

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 09:51:45AM -0000, Deon Grobler wrote:
> Hiya all
>
> OS: RedHat 6.2/7.1/7.2
>
> I would like some input from you guys to offer some suggestions on
> commercial/opensource products that will do security updates/product to
> these machines remotely. I know that we can manually upgrade the boxes,
> use up2date and so forth, but I will be managing multiple boxes, and
> would like to push out updates remotely.
>
This is exactly what the Red Hat Network is for, once registered you can
either update them locally using up2date, or push the updates from the
network website... http://rhn.redhat.com/

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Jason Kohles                                 jkohles@redhat.com
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