[PLUG] Reviews of RedHat 8.0 - is it worth $150?

Kenneth G. Stephens kens at cad2cam.com
Sat Oct 19 00:50:39 UTC 2002


On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 14:05, Richard Langis wrote:
> 
> Matt Alexander wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Richard Langis wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>...I would suggest Debian, simply because it is much easier to keep on
> >>top of updates - which, on a headless server system, is key.
> > 
> > 
> > Hmm...  RedHat's up2date utility is pretty easy...
> 
> 
> Never used it.
> 
> Although I had heard that you have to pay a monthly fee to become a 
> 'preferred' customer, so that you are guaranteed updates *when* they 
> come out.  So if you don't pay, and the servers are busy, you are SOL.
> 
> They may have changed that policy since I heard that.  I don't know.
> 
> -R
> 
> -- 
> s u n  m i c r o s y s t e m s
> 
>    ~ Richard Langis Jr. ~
>    richard.langis at sun.com
Here's a little script to make the up2date work for you automatically.
This script keeps issuing the up2date command until it does not give
an error.  It could fill up your system with processes or files.  But,
most of the time it just gets the rpms.



########################Cut here################################
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# script for polling Redhat
#

my ( $OUTPUT );
print $OUTPUT = `up2date-nox -u`;
if ( $OUTPUT =~ /Error*/ ) 
{
   print ".";
   `./uptodate.pl`;
}
#######################Cut here#################################

Ken, cad2cam.com, cadtocam.com





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