Thank you William, Tom, and Declan. The issue was resolved by commenting out the following two lines in the etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date file: versionOverride[comment]=Override the automatically determined system version and versionOverride=8.0 Admittedly, I needed some help with this. For those of you who are in the early phases of learning about RHL (like me), here is what I did: - Open terminal - su - root <enter> (You must have root privileges -- I started from a user account.) - (enter your root password) <enter> - vi /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date <enter> - i (to insert in vi) - Find the two lines from above -- they should be consecutive - Insert a "#" at the beginning of each line - Press <Esc> (to exit from insert mode in vi) - Press "ZZ" (capital letters -- saves your changes and exits vi) - Type "exit" <enter> (to end root privileges in terminal) - Run up2date as you would otherwise Hope this helps! -Jake On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 11:27, Tom Ryan wrote: > Try up2date -p > > That should fix your problem. > > Tom > > On 22 May 2003, Jake Mazur wrote: > > > My apologies to you, William, and the listserve. I'll send my replies > > to the listserve from now on. > > > > You asked about the output from /etc/sysconfig/rhn/. Here it is: > > total 56 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 22 09:18 . > > drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 May 21 19:29 .. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 270 Apr 29 10:34 rhn-applet > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13 Feb 24 21:52 rhnsd > > -rw------- 1 root root 1304 May 21 18:01 systemid > > -rw------- 1 root root 1302 May 21 17:24 systemid.save > > -rw------- 1 root root 2931 Feb 5 23:00 up2date > > -rw------- 1 root root 1160 Aug 29 2002 > > up2date-keyring.gpg > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2303 Jan 16 03:07 up2date.rpmnew > > -rw------- 1 root root 97 Apr 29 10:18 up2date-uuid > > -rw------- 1 root root 12288 May 21 10:16 > > .up2date:versionOverride=9.swp > > > > The .up2date:versionOverride=9.swp file was created after I followed a > > suggestion from one of the archived threads from this listserve. Per > > that message, as root, I did: > > rpm --query redhat-release > > cat /etc/redhat-release > > up2date --upgrade-to-release=9 --update > > > > Responses were, respectively: > > redhat-release-9-3 > > Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike) > > (the up2date command performed the update) > > > > Unfortunately, after all of that, I am now getting the exact opposite of > > the problem I was having initially: the RHN update notification icon is > > showing that my PC is up to date, but up2date is showing multiple > > updates available. > > > > I am open to your suggestions. > > > > Thank you, > > -Jake > > > > On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 21:45, William Hooper wrote: > > > Please send replies to the list. If the previous person had done that, > > > you might have your answer by now... > > > > > > Jake Mazur said: > > > > Good Morning, William, > > > > > > > > Thank you for your suggestions. Unfortunately, I was unable to resolve > > > > the > > > > issue... yet. I did narrow down the issue to the following file: > > > > /etc/sysconfig/rhn/versionOverride=8.0 > > > > > > > > The file does not appear in Nautilus. > > > > > > Hmm. I have no such file. > > > > > > > I used grep -i version > > > > /etc/sysconfig/rhn/* > > > > to see the file names, but how do I edit it to point to version 9? Do you > > > > have any > > > > suggestions? > > > > > > This returns nothing for me either (of course mine is working). Maybe > > > there is an extra file left over that you need to remove? Please post the > > > output of: > > > > > > $ cd /etc/sysconfig/rhn/ > > > $ ls -al > > > > > > > I am fairly new to the terminal, so this question is > > > > probably > > > > showing my inexperience. > > > > > > > > Warmest Regards and Thanks, > > > > -Jake Mazur > > > > > > Inexperience is no problem, we were all there at some point. As long as > > > you are open minded and have a desire to learn you should be OK. > > > > -- > _______________________________________________________________________ > Tom Ryan Voice: 856-225-6361 > Consulting System Administrator Fax: 856-969-7900 > Rutgers School of Law - Camden -- Jake Mazur <jakubmazur@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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