| Ron Kaye on 23 Jan 2008 12:33:07 -0800 |
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no no no i have been doing IT for 25 years i know enough to teach a class. i JUST dont have production experience YET and you guys on the list are ALWAYS outstanding in answering questions the practical advise to get my license data, goto the site, up2date is what i needed excellent. piece of cake thanks again, ron Computer Sciences Corporation Registered Office: 2100 East Grand Avenue, El Segundo California 90245, USA Registered in USA No: C-489-59 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:52:31 -0600 (CST) > From: Ron Kaye Jr <rekaye1005@verizon.net> Note: '#' is usually a comment, but in a prompt can also mean you need to be running as root, while $ as a prompt means you are running as a normal user (best practice unless you ad being administrative :). In this message, all but one prompt as as a regular user, but you need to be as root in upgrade or install anything. And there are no '#' comments in here. > only familiar with patching in the wintel world. > major revisions through service packs. > regular updates- grab from microsoft through various means > > i have rhel 3 or 4 running on a hp proliant server. OK, first find out which, e.g.: $ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 4.6 (Final) > how do we do this in the linux world. It depends. If you have paid Red Hat for support and updates you will have what is known as an "entitlement." You log in to some Red Hat site and register same, then use their up2date tool to download and install updates on the server itself. I don't know how to do that as I'm not in charge of any official RHEL servers. If you are running illegally, don't. Just switch to CentOS, which is a rebuild of RHEL from Red Hat's SRPMs (source RPMs), which (oversimplifying) are required by the GPL to be released. Switching isn't trivial, but it's not too bad. From your questions, at this point I'd advise hiring someone from this list to come and do it for you, and maybe provide some training, if this is a production box. If not, we can help you wing it. :-) > how do a find what has been installed? Use this command: # rpm -qa | sort | less Or to save that to a file: $ rpm -qa | sort > some_file Or to see how many things you have installed: $ rpm -qa | wc -l > how do i find a patch number or level? Well... Insofar as what you mean exists for the system as a whole, it's in /etc/redhat-release. Otherwise, for each "package" (which consists of 1 or more (sort of) RPMs, the above RPM command, or this will tell you: $ rpm -qa | grep -i <some name> Also try: $ rpm -qi <package, like binutils> > what do i do, where do i go to install patches. If using for-real RHEL, figure out the web-site and up2date and you've got it. If using CentOS, "# yum upgrade" will do it, assuming that all the other moving parts are working, like Internet connectivity and the list of package repositories. If I may say so, it sounds like you just got a Linux box dropped in your lap. We'll be more than happy to help out, but time and the email format will leave out a lot of context, so you may want to grab some books. I haven't followed "Intro to Linux" or even "Linux for <Other OS here> Admin" type books in a long time, but O'Reilly's _Running Linux_ was my first and is well well thought of. Ping the list for other suggestions, especially if you can give us more context, like your experience, background and goals. Good luck, JP ----------------------------|:::======|------------------------------- JP Vossen, CISSP |:::======| jp{at}jpsdomain{dot}org My Account, My Opinions |=========| http://www.jpsdomain.org/ ----------------------------|=========|------------------------------- Microsoft has single-handedly nullified Moore's Law. Innate design flaws of Windows make a personal firewall, anti-virus and anti-malware software mandatory. The resulting software arms race has effectively flattened Moore's Law on hardware running Windows. ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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