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I have a buddy that has a RedHat 7.3 server handling some specialized Govt apps in a research/simulation environment along with several RH 7.3 workstations. He asked me if I knew of any apps or scripts that would automatically push out patches, updates, etc, much the same way that up2date handles it, or SUS on the Windows side of the house. I suggesting upgrading to RH 8 or 9; but, that is not in the cards. Anyone familiar with something like that, maybe a cron job that talks to the server? Thanks to anyone who can help me out.
If I understand what you are looking for , then you could use apt-get(for redhat) and write a cron-job to automate it. Its located at http://apt.freshrpms.net
I thought about and have used apt-get on the the Fedora build (just to play with it), although I am personally still a Deb fan. Will it actually work with 7.3? I'll forward your suggestions to him. With the apt-get, he would have to build a custom repository on a box somewhere to hold any application specific patches as well as OS patches. Going out to public apt sites is probably going to be a frowned upon, but, if he downloaded the packages and then put them on his trusted network....I'll have to see if he is up to the challange. Thanks for the help, I did forward a link to this forum so he could use it as a resource, as I have. Thanks again.
Distribution: RH7.3, RH9 w/fluxbox best thing since sliced bread
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I wonder if you could download all updates as you described to a depot box, and setup all other boxes repository's (/etc/apt/sources.list) to point to your depot box for updates?
I'm the newbie that Danda was talking about. I have reviewed the suggestions and will try to make some time to tinker with it. I appreciate your assistance!
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