[GLLUG] RHN... the Red Hat Notwork

[Melson, Paul]

For that matter, anybody can use ftp://updates.redhat.com, regardless of
their RHN account status.  All updated packages go there at the same
time they're published to the RHN servers.  Of course, up2date is nicer
since it automates package management for you based on which RPMs are
already installed on your system.  If you use RHN, you can do like I do
and have a cron job run `up2date -d` nightly and send you a message if
it downloads anything.  That way you can review it and run `up2date -i`
whenever you want.

Since we're on the topic, let me share with you a lesson I learned the
hard way (in hopes that you won't).  RHN has added a feature to detect
"abuse."  (I prefer to say "persistence.")  One way in which they define
abuse is exceeding a requests-per-hour threshold.  I don't know what the
threshold is, but it's something less than 1 request every 4 seconds.
:-)

PaulM

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:blp@cs.stanford.edu]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 2:03 PM
To: Edward Glowacki
Cc: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
Subject: Re: [GLLUG] RHN... the Red Hat Notwork


Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:

> I discovered today that you can only update the software for one
RedHat
> machine at a time!  Apparently, unless you pay, the up2date updater
will
> only work on the single machine that you have enabled via the website,
> and if you aren't a paying customer, you can't do any updates during
> time of heavy load (like right now, *grumble*).

Why not use a Red Hat mirror, then?  Is there some reason that
only ftp.redhat.com will do?  (I know little about Red Hat so
that's a serious question.)  Personally, I use mirrors.kernel.org
for Debian (800kB/s from here), but it also carries Red Hat.
-- 
"In this world that Hugh Heffner had made,
 he alone seemed forever bunnyless."
--John D. MacDonald
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