Re: 7.2 Wish List

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 23:08:15 +0000 "Rodolfo J. Paiz"
<rpaiz indahaus com> imparted to us:

> Wish:
> 
>    To be able to support RedHat by actually subscribing
>    to RedHat Network.
> 
> How To Grant Wish:
> 
>    Reduce cost of subscriptions. $20/month for update
>    notifications is just too high. Even MS doesn't charge
>    this much for such a feature, and it's well worth the
>    savings to do this manually. Consider:
>      - Home users with up to 5 machines (maybe even just 3)
>      - SOHO users with up to 10 machines
> 
> With a home firewall, a cheap home server, my computer, and my wife's
> box 
> all running Linux, I've got four RedHat boxes at home, plus two
> servers I 
> use for a tiny business. I cannot pay $80 *monthly* for my home
> systems 
> plus $40 for the business systems.
> 
> So what do I do? I use the one free system as a guide. Whatever it
> tells me 
> to update, I then update for all the other machines manually. Do I
> want to 
> subscribe? Yes. But it needs to be less expensive.

Subscribe, modify /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date on one machine to
'keepAfterInstall=1' and point other machines to the location where the
updates are stored (/var/spool/up2date unless you change it). They can
get updates from there if all are networked to the registered machine.

You can register each of the machines separately or only one and use it
as a source to update the others. You can register one for home
networking and one for the business. You can register a single machine
for both and connect (networking or dialup) from the others to get to
the spool of the registered one.

What we hacve here is choices.

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