All:
Many thanks to Joey Prestia, Mark Roth, and Ben Kevan and for
the helpful advice on how to update the kernel for my RHEL 5 systems.
FYI, the update was completed without incident by:
1. Downloading kernel-2[1].6.18-92.1.22.el5.i686.rpm and
burning it to CD and sneakernetting the CD to the other network.
2. FTPing to each Linux box, beginning with the hot spare.
3. Renaming the file to remove the square brackets (I just
replaced them with dashes.
4. rpm -ivh kernel-2-1-.6.18-92.1.22.el5.i686.rpm.
5. Rebooting.
While I also I installed
kernel-doc-2[1].6.18-92.1.22.el5.noarch.rpm (with rpm -U) using the same
technique, it does not appear to be necessary.
The question of why is a valid one. As part of a defense in
depth strategy, we are required to keep up with all vendor security
patches. While nothing is completely hacker proof, we need to make
things as difficult as possible for the bad guys. This principle is
applied even for those devices which are not connected to the Internet.
Thanks again.
Howard
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