Redhat up2date rpms to date

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Sunday 22 March 2009 08:04:20 pm Paul Ward wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for an easy way to update over 20 servers via up2date.
>
> As it will take me several days to update all the servers is their an
> easy way to add them to a rhn channel that will not accept any newer
> packages as of a date and time I choose, as I worry that a new package
> or even kernel maybe released in the middle of my updating /
> downloading rpms to the servers.
>
> I am going to use # up2date -du to start off with, however this could
> still cause a problem for me.
>
It sounds like you are using RHEL and RHN.  all you need to do is schedule the 
update in the web interface  and all machines will get updated on there next 
checkin. You will have all boxes updated in a matter of hours.

Dennis