Red Hat has *never* required an ID from the physical box in order to use
up2date. You register on line either by using rhn_register or up2date
--register, depending on the version.
--
Bill in Denver
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, dashielljt bovinely defecated:
> Oh man! If you had read all the bitching and moaning going on on
> Redhat-install and Enigma-list from about the time when 7.3 became
> available you might have chosen a different distribution. I never managed
> to use up2date since I didn't get an ID code in 7.2 and then 7.2 got
> knocked over by a hacker. I gave Bill Acker the particular details on the
> phorensics then installed slackware 8.0. Couldn't get any kind of answer
> from redhat as to what to do for an ID code for 7.2 which I had also
> purchased over at Staples having purchased 7.0 their earlier.
>
> Jude <dashielljt at gmpexpress.net>
>
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, James Poss wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> > I'm just wondering if anyone here is using redhat 8, and using the
> > up2date program.
> > I attempted to upgrade my system a week ago. It successfully installed
> > the first package, however, after it finished, the program hung, and the
> > only thing that terminated it, was a kill -9 from another console.
> > since then, I can not run up2date, nor install any rpm files.
> > Again, the program hangs, and needs a good old number 9 to halt.
> > If anyone has any ideas, I'd be most appriciative, as I'm trying to
> > install a rpm package that I want to experiment with, and can't ATM.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jim
> >
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> >
> >
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