up2date anonymous server functionality is no longer available

[Albert Lunde <Albert-Lunde northwestern edu>]

Running "up2date -l" on a system registered with "up2date -r".
now says:
> There was a fatal error communicating with the server.  The message was:
>
> ERROR:
>        The anonymous server functionality is no longer available.
>
>        Please re-register this system by running rhn_register as root.
>        Login at http://www.redhat.com/network, click Your Network tab,
>        then Assign Service Levels and enable this service on your newly
>        registered system.
>
> INFO: N/A
>
>           An error has occured while processing your request. If this problem
>           persists please submit a bug report to rhn-help@redhat.com.
>           If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include
>           details of what were you trying to do when this error occured and
>           details on how to reproduce this problem.

Note the prior posting below.

"Always" seems to mean about 6 months in this context.

It's not that I think that paying for support is a bad business
model, but it's been hard enough to find out the long-term costs and
benefits of "Red Hat Network" that I couldn't convince my boss and
coworkers it was worth it.

> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 00:00:11 -0500
> From: Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>
> To: guinness-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: recommended tool to auto update rpms?
> Message-ID: <20001102000011.A9599@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
> References: <B7F9A3E3FDDDD11185510000F8BDBBF2019C7875@mcdc-atl-5.cdc.gov>
[...]
> The Red Hat Network has a free level of service that allows you to
> download and instal updates.  Just use the "anonymous" registration
> through the GUI or commandline:
>
> up2date -r -l
>
> to list the updates that apply to your system, then:
>
> up2date -r [list the packages you want do download here]
>
> a future version of the command line interface will allow:
>
> "up2date -r -u" which will download and install all the updated
> package that apply to your system.
>
> This level will always be free.
>
> Matt
[...]

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    Albert Lunde         Albert-Lunde@northwestern.edu (new address)
                         Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (old address)