I’ve been experiencing the oddest thing in RHEL4: When a new kernel version was released: The upgrade its listed when I do “up2date -l” One week later I tried to upgrade the kernel, but “surprise” the new kernel is not there anymore. Now I really want to upgrade the kernel and don’t know how. Answer … Read more
I have the “logwatch” service turned on and I expect to get a mail everyday. Today’s mail titled “Logwatch for servername (Linux)” has the following section… ——————— up2date Begin ———————— **Unmatched Entries** The certificate is expired. Please ensure you have the correct certificate and your system time is correct. I checked and my system time … Read more
I need to maintain an ancient RHEL 4 server. I would like to install tmux but for some reason up2date is not finding the file: [root@378911-www2 tmux]# ls tmux-1.6-1.rf.src.rpm [root@378911-www2 tmux]# up2date -k . tmux-1.6-1.rf.src.rpm Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-4… Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-4-extras… Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rackspace-rhel-i386-es-4-php-5.2… Fetching Obsoletes … Read more
I have redhat 4 with : Actual kernel———————–> 2.6.9-78.0.17.ELsmp new kernel available (up2date) ——–> 2.6.9-89.x.xx. For some reason , i need the new kernel version number before actually doing the upgrade… Is there a safe way of doing this with up2date , without actualy doing the update. Thanks in advance…. Answer You could try with: … Read more
I recently added a server to our network. After a normal RHEL5 installation I added a number of packages via yum. This was about 2 weeks ago. This morning Im looking for something in yum and tried ‘yum list <package>’. I got a large error: Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security Traceback (most recent call last): File … Read more
