Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 patching

hike mh1272 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 7 14:41:11 UTC 2011


We have time restrictions also.
We run the updater out of cron to meet those time restrictions.
We have not had any issues doing this.

RH also has a satellite update server that can update the files as needed
and you run each server against your satellite server.  I assume that they
still have this product.

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Paul M. Whitney <paul.whitney at me.com> wrote:

> I believe Red Hat releases updates when one is warranted for either a bug
> fix, vulnerability, etc.  The beauty with RHN is that the updates are
> available quickly for you to most importantly mitigate vulnerabilities and
> you are notified when these updates are available.  I typically like to
> download the updates and test first in my "non-production" environment to
> ensure nothing breaks and then apply to production systems once I am certain
> the updates do not disrupt anything.
>
> Depending on the risk your customer is willing to accept on their systems,
> quarterly might work, but I would suggest at a minimum monthly updates be
> applied to the systems.
>
> Paul M. Whitney
> 
> "Can't is the cancer of happen." - Charlie Sheen
>
>
>
> On Mar 07, 2011, at 07:26 AM, Dean Thompson <dnt07 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>  Hi all
>>
>> A client wants to explore the different patching options we have for Red
>> Hat EL
>> 5.5. The preference from the client's side would be to not connect to the
>> RHN
>> and rather have patching done once a quarter with officially released
>> patches.
>>
>> Can you please tell me whether Red Hat releases quarterly patches similar
>> to the
>> way Solaris does it with the EIS dvd's?
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Dean
>>
>>
>>



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