Re: RedHat Network

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber redhat com>]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Andreas Lund wrote:

>
> Can someone tell me if it's now possible to say "I want to keep the services
> running on this box updated" without having to manually confirm each and
> every file now? Last time I checked, I had to go through several 30 second
> page downloads for each package I wanted to update. Also, the up2date daemon
> refused to update certain packages without warning, notice or explanation.
> If that's still the case I'm NOT paying $10 per month for it.

Those files "marked to be skipped" are either kernel upgrades, or they are
being skipped because upgrading them would overwrite a config file you
have manually modified. You wouldn't want yuor services to suddenly stop
working for no appararant reason, would you? You can use the RHN web
client to upgrade these files anyway, and *.rpmsave files will be made
with your old config files in them.

> I think maybe RH would get more subscribers to this service if people had
> been allowed to see it actually work for them first? Sorry, I'm just a bit
> disappointed right now.

You can see how it works. Right now, everybody with a username and
password on the Red Hat website can use RHN to administer one machine. You
don't even need to have one of those 16-character product ID's to use this
feature. (IE: .iso downloaders Welcome!) If you don't have a login and
password for Red Hat's website, just sign up for one. The only thing you
can't really lie about is the email address. By default- your're not
getting any mail from us, although you can certainly select to get a
bunch.

Chris Kloiber