[hobbit] monitoring patch status?

Martin Flemming martin.flemming at desy.de
Sat Nov 15 15:18:40 CET 2008


Ok, my fault ... it's only a update not a patch-mechanism ..

 	martin

On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Rich Smrcina wrote:

> T.J. Yang wrote:
>>  For my understanding, there is no patch concept for Linux OS.
>>  Solaris and HP-UX are two Unix OS that I need to deal with have OS
>>  patches.
>>  Windows has patch also but is there an open source pca script  doing patch
>>  report ?
>>
>>
>>  tj
>
> The enterprise or server versions of major distros (like SLES) have regular 
> patch distribution and notification processes.  If specific people in an 
> installation sign up for notification of patches, they are sent emails that 
> patches are available.  Patch servers can also be set up that can download 
> these patches so that the internal servers  can have the patches available 
> without having to all fetch them from the distributor (Novell in this case). 
> I'm going to guess that RedHat Satellite does something similar.
>
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        Martin Flemming


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