[Centos] RHEL question

[Matt Shields]

Actually, you can have unauthorized servers.  

1. install RHEL via CD
2. turn off rhnsd service on new server
3. setup a server to download/install/upgrade all available packages
4. make /var/spool/up2date directory available on your network

NOTE: this is not legal according to RedHat's license, you are
required to pay for a license for each computer.  But this is a good
way to build your own satellite server to conserve on bandwidth


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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:45:09 -0600, Johnny Hughes
<mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 18:00 -0600, Mike Kercher wrote:
> > The answer is yes you do.  You'd have to login to https://rhn.redhat.com and
> > go to the proper channel, but under the errata, you can find download links
> > to the RPM's.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> 
> After downloading the RPMS though, you can deploy them however you want
> to your other _Authorized_ RHEL machines ... using apt or some other
> means.
> 
> You couldn't deploy them to non authorized machines.
> 
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: centos-bounces at caosity.org [mailto:centos-bounces at caosity.org] On
> > Behalf Of Steve Meyers
> > Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 4:43 PM
> > To: centos at caosity.org
> > Subject: [Centos] RHEL question
> >
> > I work for a small company, and we're running CentOS on our servers.  We are
> > looking to possibly move our most critical servers to RHEL.  We currently
> > use apt to deploy software upgrades to our servers.  I have a question about
> > RHEL subscriptions that they don't seem to be able to answer for me.  If you
> > have an RHEL subscription, do you have access to manually download the RPMs?
> > We would prefer to deploy upgrades using apt instead of up2date, for
> > consistency, but we need to know whether we can even do that on RHEL.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Steve Meyers
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