I'm using RHEL 3.0 AS on several boxes, mainly Dell 2650s and 2850s. Our intranet isn't and won't be connected to the internet, and my tech. director wants me to find a way to use the RHNetwork capacity to distribute selected patches to my systems via our intranet.

I would be downloading updates manually from the RH site, and testing them in our software testing facility before distributing them to our "working" machines. Does anyone know if I can deploy a system that is configured is such a way so as to "trick" RH into using the RHNetwork automatic update function to reach out to a master system and download the updates I've selected and tested?

Depending on your budget, RHN Satellite and Proxy may be a viable option.

--jeremy

THanks for the suggestions; I am really just floating around right now. Somehow, with very minimal Linux experience, I've become the go-to guy for my boss and boss's boss about Linux issues. It seems like we will be purchasing a private RH Satellite server.