[lug] Red Hat Network Experience?

[Greg Horne]

My only gripe about the RHN is that (and maybe it's just me) it takes a
while to check for packages that should be updated.    The part where it
gets the headers for everything, removes the ones it doesn't need, and
then gives you a list takes forever.  Do you know what I mean?  I'm on a
T1 BTW.

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Greg Horne


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]
On
> Behalf Of Nate Duehr
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:39 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] Red Hat Network Experience?
> 
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:33:13PM -0700, Rob Nagler wrote:
> > Anybody have experience with the Red Hat Network?  I'm thinking of
> > using it for about 30 machines.
> 
> Running it on several personal machines.  Like it a lot.  :-)
> 
> I think you could run into strange interactions if you don't stick
with
> RedHat's RPM packages for things or rebuild stuff yourself like Perl,
> but in general if you're doing a farm of machines that you just want
to
> keep updates done on with latest patches, etc -- it seems to work
well.
> 
> Haven't used any of their grouping stuff for "Enterprise" level
support
> yet.  I assume they have a way for a series of admins to log in and
deal
> with their own group of machines while the overall admin account can
see
> the "big picture" but I'm not sure if that's really what the group
> features do or not.  I guess it could also be so you can group
> functionally equivalent machines like the Web farm, the mail servers,
> the file servers, etc.
> 
> --
> Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>
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