[Cumbria] RH in Give us your data and money shocker!

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Michael Saunders said:
> There is such a product, called RHN Satellite Server or something.

So there is. That, and the RHN Proxy Service are classed as Enterprise
support and hence cost $$$ (or rather =A3=A3=A3 in our cases). They shoul=
d make
this available as a 'consumer-level' subscription...

> Now, I don't admin a large network of machines, but I don't really get
> this. What's hard with SSHing into the boxes and "wget... ; rpm -Fvh"
> the updated packages? It wouldn't take all that long on 100ish boxes
> with a decent pipe to the Net, and would be completely free. Plus, big
> security fixes don't appear all that often and wouldn't necessarily
> need to be applied to every box immediately.

Security fixes happen every day - it doesn't matter whether it's 'big' or
'small' - if it affects a service you are running it needs to be evaluate=
d
and patched ASAP. Now, there's nothing wrong with doing it by hand. Well,
apart from the manpower cost, the scope for error etc... And based on the
rate RH updates have been coming recently, I don't think Paul will fancy
patching all of his machines by hand... Which raises the question "Why
*BSD?" Surely debian with it's apt-get functionality would have been a
better choice... and yes, I know *BSD has packages and ports.

RH say they are developing lower-end solutions, but they should have had
them ready before they made any announcements...
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