From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Wed Oct 12 11:05:45 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9CG5jsF004147 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:05:45 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9CG5gvX004130 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:05:42 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 8E28A1FB65F; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:05:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15894-08; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:05:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 0ECAB1FB5F2; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:05:36 -0500 (EST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=ox06P0BZMmaM/S8BoEPZxqj6kTXAxXQn5up7g8Njghwc/5K0lt6NfgzhH/UOyssKzCFTgfOOXudUjagWWJ5NMT+YpNFANCCDLvezYjGxoinYxLUhXhbcV3hjCerOAB/XiRFOJUQB4StvXNZktNaGwU5xaumvdlI4ff7HRXK9i0Y= Message-ID: <910046b40510120903y54b9f79fuddeaa897c168bbb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:03:35 -0400 From: Paul Drake To: oracle-l Subject: up2date complaint (RHEL) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_39376_20524424.1129133015642" X-archive-position: 26810 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: bdbafh@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: bdbafh@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham version=2.63 ------=_Part_39376_20524424.1129133015642 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline why is it that for RHEL after my inbox has been inndated with hundreds of notifications of updates ... that when up2date is run via the gui (make extra certain that you have beacoup space free under /var first) that after it scans all of the packages that sort before "u" it says: a newer version of up2date is available at which point, after updating up2date, it starts all over. Even Microsoft's update tool checks first to see if it should update itself before downloading the hotfixes/updates. Yeah, I know - I should just manually run up2date from the command line first and direct it to fetch the up2date rpm first. happing patching: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS05-051.mspx Paul ------=_Part_39376_20524424.1129133015642 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline why is it that for RHEL after my inbox has been inndated with hundreds of notifications of updates ... that when up2date is run via the gui (make extra certain that you have beacoup space free under /var first) that after it scans all of the packages that sort before "u" it s= ays:

a newer version of up2date is available

at which point, after updating up2date, it starts all over.

Even Microsoft's update tool checks first to see if it should update itself= before downloading the hotfixes/updates.

Yeah, I know - I should just manually run up2date from the command line fir= st and direct it to fetch the up2date rpm first.

happing patching: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS05= -051.mspx

Paul

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