I have been given the task of keeping our yum repository updated because we have lost the 2 employees that used to manage this, and I have a few questions in hopes that you all can help out. We have approximately 200 Linux servers all running either RedHat 2.1, 3.0, or 4.0 with different levels of updates. Our repository server is currently running Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 7). Previous employee had a script that ran once a month to see if there were any updates for ANY of the versions of RedHat we run and stored it into our repository. In looking at the script, it is running the /usr/sbin/up2date command, but passing the parameters to look for all the different version. It looks like the script is only pulling the updates for the ES3 updates, and not pulling it down for the other versions. Now when I run a yum update on a RH4 machine it tells me there are no updates to install, which I know to be incorrect, because I am currently on release 3 and the current version is release 5. Is yum supposed to be able to pull different versions of RH down to the repository using the up2date command on a RH3 machine? If so can you please tell me or send me an example script on how this could work? Can you tell me the url/ftp site the up2date goes to check for updates? Any help would be appreciated. Chris Keeney Analyst Programmer The Hertz Corporation 5601 NW Expressway Oklahoma City, OK 73132, U.S.A ckeeney@xxxxxxxxx (405)280-5027 --------------- This message (including attachments) may contain information that is privileged, confidential or protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that dissemination, disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this message or any information contained in it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete this message from your computer. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this e-mail and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. --------------- _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
