[olug] Linux updates

[Dave Hull]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Tim V - DZ  wrote:

> up2date and the like are nice and all, but up2date in particular (I
> believe) needs to be run as root, and requires a subscription to the rhn
> website.

I don't think you have to have a subscription to rhn, but if you do have a 
subscription (entitlement in RH lingo) then you get priority over non-entitled 
users for updates. Non-entitled systems can't typically get through to the 
up2date servers during times of peak usage.

I recently purchased an entitlement, but had been using up2date with good 
success for the last year or so without one.

As for having to be root, as far as I know, that is required in order to 
update the rpm database and install system binaries. I usually just run 
up2date using sudo.

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