Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 patching

[Paul M. Whitney]

I believe Red Hat releases updates when one is warranted for either a bug fix, vulnerability, etc.  The beauty with RHN is that the updates are available quickly for you to most importantly mitigate vulnerabilities and you are notified when these updates are available.  I typically like to download the updates and test first in my "non-production" environment to ensure nothing breaks and then apply to production systems once I am certain the updates do not disrupt anything.

Depending on the risk your customer is willing to accept on their systems, quarterly might work, but I would suggest at a minimum monthly updates be applied to the systems.

Paul M. Whitney

"Can't is the cancer of happen." - Charlie Sheen


On Mar 07, 2011, at 07:26 AM, Dean Thompson <dnt07 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> A client wants to explore the different patching options we have for Red Hat EL
> 5.5. The preference from the client's side would be to not connect to the RHN
> and rather have patching done once a quarter with officially released patches.
>
> Can you please tell me whether Red Hat releases quarterly patches similar to the
> way Solaris does it with the EIS dvd's?
>
>
> Regards
> Dean
>
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