Toby DiPasquale on Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:10:16 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] Redhat up2date


Kevin,

	Yeah, you do have to be part of the RedHat Network to use up2date.
Or at least, you did when I was running it 3 months ago.

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On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, kevin mudrick wrote:

> 
> Do you have to be a registered, paying customer of redhat to be able to
> use up2date?  For some reason I had thought that was the case.. I'm hooked
> on debian's apt (even though waiting for kde3 to make its way into sid
> looks like its going to be forever), but my laptop is running redhat 7.1,
> and i'd love to use something to upgrade the rpms without having to
> manually hunt for all the new rpms..
> 
> -kevin
> 
> > up2date is EXCELLENT for keeping up with errata and
> > plugging holes created by recent exploits quickly and
> > easily. It's just
> > up2date -u
> > and you no longer have to worry about the latest
> > exploit. I run that line in a cronscript every night
> > and rest easy.
> 
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