From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Attempts to execute up2date-config from the CLI (as root) fail. This file does not exist on the system. Attempts to locate or download it from RedHat's web site fail, i.e. searches for 'up2date-config' return no documents. The manpage for up2date references this command as a standalone executable. This web page (http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHNetwork/ref-guide/up2date- config.html) indicates that the command should be available as well. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install RedHat 7.0 2.run 'rhn_register 3.run 'up2date-config' Actual Results: [root@ns3 /var/log]# up2date-config bash: up2date-config: command not found [root@ns3 /var/log]# Expected Results: Unknown. I have never been able to get it to work. Additional attempts to locate references to this executable on the systems yield the following: [root@ns3 /var/log]# find / -name *up2* /var/spool/up2date find: /proc/6/fd: Permission denied /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date /home/updates/incoming/up2date /home/updates/incoming/up2date/up2date-2.1.7-1.i386.rpm /usr/sbin/up2date /usr/share/doc/up2date-2.1.7 /usr/share/man/man2/dup2.2.gz /usr/share/man/man8/up2date.8.gz /usr/share/rhn/up2date /usr/share/rhn/up2date/up2date.py /usr/share/rhn/up2date/up2date.pyc [root@ns3 /var/log]# [root@ns3 /var/log]# rpm -qa | grep up2 up2date-2.1.7-1 [root@ns3 /var/log]# I classify the bug as normal, however, without proper configuration of the up2date utility, severe security implications come into play.
It's part of the up2date-gnome package.
Thank you for your response. However, the system I am working with is not a gnome workstation. It is a headless server on which I will not run gnome. Trying to install the package mentioned here leads into a fairly long multi- teired list of dependent packages that, I suspect, would eventually, once all packages are installed, leave us with a gnome workstation. I am looking for a way to configure up2date on Non-gnome servers. Non of the documentation mention that the system Must be a gnome workstation for up2date to function completely. Am I missing something simple, or is the documentation in error? Or, is it not possible to configure RHN from a runlevel3 only (non-X) system? Thank you, David Botham
Our next version of up2date will include a text mode configuration utility. Until then, edit the file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date with a text editor.
addressed in errata due out today.