RHN Down for Maintenance - till when? - mirror site for packages?

[Herta Van den Eynde]

Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Herta Van den Eynde wrote:
> 
> 
>>We're in the middle of our annual maintenance.  This morning, we were greated
>>by a "Down for Maintenance" message on RHN, which claims that the "servers
>>will be back online by no later than 11:00PM EDT (UTC-4) on Tuesday, June 6th,
>>2006."
>>
>>Apart from the fact that it would have been nice if RHN had informed us ahead
>>of time, does anyone know how long the maintenance will last?
>>
>>Is there another location where we could pick up the cluster suite packages
>>for RHEL AS4?
> 
> 
> Hi Herta,
> 
> You might be interested in Yam. This allows you to mirror channels from 
> RHN so that you have the packages available locally.
> 
> 	http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/
> 
> Kind regards,
> --   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
> [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
> 

Thanks for the suggestion, Dag.  I added it to my tdb-list.

On the Red Hat Network Users List, Misa (from Red Hat) meanwhile pointed 
me to the outage policy document at 
https://rhn.redhat.com/help/outage_policy.pxt.  It refers to an Email 
Outage List, where outages are announced.

Kind regards,

Herta


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