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Abandon all hope now or I can update the out of date bits? and how do I do this?
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Now - it is, in principle, possible to update everything in RH9 that you need... basically, read the sticky in the redhat subforum about updating your kernel. It has a list of all the programming things you also need to update. This is a minimum.
The thing is, this has all been done for you already - it's called "fedora" (or CentOS). Which is why the most likely and first suggestion will always be: upgrade to a more recent distro. Especially considering it will likely involve smaller downloads and less time.
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I thought Linux was a nice friendly (updateable) OS!
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It's unusual for anyone to accuse linux of being "freindly"
As stated previously, it is possibly, in principle, to update everything - even create your own linux from scratch. However: the best way to go about this is to start with a very up-to-date distro which suits you, then maintain that.
For eg. Updating sendmail in fedora is a matter of typing "yum upgrade sendmail". This is because fedora is in active development and redhat9 is not.
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Surely I am not the only muppet that has had this problem? but there seems to be no enlightenment to be found searching google.
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You could try the redhat subforum instead? (What seems to happen is everyone has either been using it for ages and thus updated in increments, or else they've discovered just how difficult it is to keep track of everything in such a complex OS and changed distro.
If you are really keen on Redhat: you have a special and very compelling reason to maintain it - you'll need to state which RH9 you have, there are several varieties depending on where you got it from, and what you have done to update it so far. Like I said - have a look at the sticky on updating the kernel.
Have a look in the build script - especially line 64... and any other lines that appear in there. Check the sendmail website for a list of dependencies (there should be a file in the tarball too).
More on RH9 - the bit on sendmail dosn't help you though.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...t=sendmail+RH9