<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1555" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=908114718-17072006><FONT face=Arial size=2>We have recently introduced Linux into our environment and so I'm wondering how others are handling the process of patching systems ?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=908114718-17072006><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=908114718-17072006><FONT face=Arial size=2>It seems that RedHat Satellite Server would do it but for less than 10 servers it's a very expensive solution and one that our company won't buy. If I understand Proxy Server correctly that only avoids a server making a direct connection to RHN but rather to some other system.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=908114718-17072006><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=908114718-17072006><FONT face=Arial size=2>Isn't there a method to simply download all patches for a given distribution like RHEL 4 for AMD64 on a quarterly basis and use that as a standard patch set ? </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=908114718-17072006><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=908114718-17072006><FONT face=Arial size=2>We basically want to use a standard patch set in a test, User Acceptance and finally Production environment.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=908114718-17072006><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=908114718-17072006><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=908114718-17072006><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=908114718-17072006><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=908114718-17072006><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brian.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=908114718-17072006><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=908114718-17072006><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV></BODY></HTML>