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Kepler
04-12-2006, 07:44 AM
Hello All,
I've been trying to find something like a howto on the Internet to help me setup a SUS-like patch management solution for RedHat Servers, but to no avail. The only stuff I find are references to books that purport to explain the whys and what-fors. Can anyone direct me to a website that might help me out.
Thanks,
K.
Icarus
04-12-2006, 08:23 AM
You looking for something like Yast for RedHat? synaptic is an apt frontend if that's what you're looking for...
Kepler
04-12-2006, 09:43 AM
Hello Icarus,
Thanks for replying back so quickly.
If Yast for Redhat allows me to setup a repository of patches on one RedHat Server that other RedHat Servers can connect to and download the security patches, then yes that could do the job. I would only be familar with using Yast on a single suse machine for patch updates.
K.
phlipant
04-12-2006, 09:53 AM
I don't have a good page for Red Hat, but you might get some guidance from the Fedora page.
http://fedoranews.org/alex/tutorial/yum/
bwilliam79
04-12-2006, 09:54 AM
If this is for a business, then you may want to look at Novell's Zenworks Linux Management. It allows you to patch/update both Red Hat and SUSE boxes through a web based console. If you're asking for you home machine, then it's probably a little overkill. :) Why not just use SUSE?
Kepler
04-12-2006, 10:04 AM
phlipant - Thanks I'll take a look at the link. This would work fine with RedHat I assume?
bwilliam79 - Unfortunately suse is not an option as this is a business project so it has to be RedHat.
bwilliam79
04-12-2006, 10:10 AM
Bummer on the RH dependancy. Since it's for a business, check this out. http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/linuxmanagement/
It's actually a really good product, and it's based off the Red Carpet technology from Ximian. (Read... It's not a legacy Novell product) :)
Kepler
04-12-2006, 10:42 AM
phlipant - Took a quick look at the yum link you sent, it looks the biz but I think I right in saying it wouldn't necessarily work for RedHat ES?
bwilliam79 - I'm download the eval as I type, hopefully it'll do the job...
happybunny
04-12-2006, 12:23 PM
you can setup your own Satillite Redhat server to do just that.
It is a service you can get from Redhat themselves. All your Redhat servers point to your Redhat Satillite server to get their updates, just like WSUS.
ALso, I haven't found any repo's for yum or apt for RHES series.
Kepler
04-13-2006, 10:38 AM
ok, I'll check that out too... thanks