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I've been trying to find something like a howto on the Internet to help me setup a SUS-like patch management solution for RedHat Servers, but to no avail. The only stuff I find are references to books that purport to explain the whys and what-fors. Can anyone direct me to a website that might help me out.
I have a subscription with RedHat on one Enterprise Server. We are looking at using RedHat for a number of other services where I work, but I want to minimise the amount of traffic going out to the Internet. I know there is a method with using a proxy server, but I'd like to know all the options available to me.
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I believe you can use YUM. Setup a head node that gets its updates directly from Redhat and acts as a local YUM RPM repository. The client machines on the network then use YUM to grab updates from the local repo. I'm not 100% sure if this will work with Redhats update scheme, but I don't see why it wouldn't. Also note that if the client machines are not licensed with Redhat, then you are likely violating the terms of the license on the headnode.
**quote** So you want to get the updates on one machine and use the same for other machines??
Yes, something like that. If I could setup a redhat server to act as a repository for security patches that other redhat servers can connect to, then that would do the job. This repository server would need to have patches for services/applications that it would not be necessarily running itself.
Capt_Caveman - I got this link from... aaah elsewhere describing how to use yum with fedora and rh9. But I don't think it can work eith RH ES, what with licences etc.
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describing how to use yum with fedora and rh9. But I don't think it can work eith RH ES, what with licences etc.
