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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Patch management dilemma Post 302350484 by Steelysteel on Friday 4th of September 2009 03:05:33 AM

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Patch management dilemma

I've inherited about 10 RHEL 3 boxes that are located in Europe behind a corporate firewall with no access to rhn.redhat.com

I've been tasked with patching all of these systems but I ask, Does redhat issue patch bundles? In AIX, there are maintenance levels and Sun has patch clusters available for download. This doesn't appear to be the case with Redhat. I'm looking to just perform one download all of the updated rpms and have them applied to the system, but without a connection to the internet, I don't see how that's possible.

Anybody have any insight on how to overcome this hurdle without spending hours downloading individual rpms?

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rdate

RDATE(1)							      Red Hat								  RDATE(1)

NAME

       rdate - get the time via the network

SYNOPSIS

       rdate [-p] [-s] [-u] [-l] [-t sec] [host...]

DESCRIPTION

       rdate connects to an RFC 868 time server over a TCP/IP network, printing the returned time and/or setting the system clock.

   OPTIONS
       -p     Print the time returned by the remote machine.

       -s     Set the system time to the returned time.

       -u     Use UDP instead of TCP as the transport.

       -l     Use syslog to output errors (cron.warning) and output (cron.info).

       -t     Set timeout in seconds for every attempt to retrieve date.

HISTORY

       2004-03-16 Johan Nilsson <joh-nils@dsv.su.se>
	      Timeout support added.

       2002-11-06 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
	      Patch from Tomek Orzechowski <orzech@pld.org.pl> - alarm(10) to not wait forever for connections.

       2001-05-23 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch@redhat.com>
	      Added UDP protocol support.  Close the connection after message handling in conformance to RFC 868.

       2002-03-07 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
	      Add syslog functionality.

       2000-02-04 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
	      Wrote it (previous incarnation had license problems, all 200 lines of it).

Utilities							     May 2001								  RDATE(1)