On 08/08/10 1:12 PM, James Hogarth wrote:
I do find this behaviour very odd... if you are not intending to get support from redhat why not just install CentOS in the beginning so you can still get updates? Ah well...
fairly often, its due to some perceived vendor requirements on the part of operations people. Or, the server was purchased with a RHEL license, but it wasn't renewed. I have to work with operations people in overseas manufacturing plants, who are _extremely_ conservative about applying updates. if its not broken, they won't fix it. as most of these systems are single function (run a java based application suite used for factory floor message routing, or run an oracle/postgres/whatever database along with some java stuff that front ends for the database), most updates have nothing to do with the mission.