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register and update redhat 4 box from within secure network

syklops · 2008-01-10 16:16:29

Hi, I have a server on a secure network. It does not have access to the internet directly. Instead I have to login to a trusted box, and from there login to the server. I want to register ths server on the redhat network, and I want to install the updates. Does anyone know how I could do this? I was thinking of using an…

10-01-2008 4:16pm

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syklops

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Hi,

I have a server on a secure network. It does not have access to the internet directly. Instead I have to login to a trusted box, and from there login to the server. I want to register ths server on the redhat network, and I want to install the updates. Does anyone know how I could do this? I was thinking of using an ssh tunnel, but I dont know how to tell up2date to use the tunnel. Any thoughts?

Thanks,

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#2 11-01-2008 3:35am

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If you set up the tunnel from localhost:31337 on the server to a RHN server via the trusted box, I imagine it would be:
up2date --serverUrl=localhost:31337 ...

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