Table of Contents

About the Author

Preface

Acknowledgments

1  Patch Management Systems

2  Consolidating Patches on a Red Hat/Fedora Network

3  SUSE’s Update Systems and rsync Mirrors

4  Making apt Work for You

5  Configuring apt for RPM Distributions

6  Configuring a yum Client

7  Setting Up a yum Repository

Courses

UNIX / Linux Networking  [PTG: PRENTICE HALL PROFESSIONAL]   (Computer Science)

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Author Bios

Michael Jang holds RHCE, SAIR Linux Certified Professional, CompTIA Linux+ Professional, and MCP certifications, and has written books on four Linux certifications. Specializing in networks and operating systems, he has two more books coming soon: Linux Annoyances for Geeks (O’Reilly, 2006) and Mastering Red Hat Fedora Linux 5 (Sybex, 2006).

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• The first start-to-finish guide to patching Linux systems in production environments
• For Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE, Debian, and other leading distributions
• Comprehensive coverage of apt, yum, Red Hat Network, YaST Online Update, Zenworks Linux Management, and other tools
• High-efficiency techniques that minimize impacts on networks, users, and administrators

The Start-to-Finish Patch Management Guide for Every Linux® Environment

To keep your Linux systems secure, reliable, and productive, you must stay current with patches and updates. But, until now, it has been difficult to find usable, trustworthy guidance on managing patches in Linux production environments. Linux Patch Management fills that gap, offering Linux professionals start-to-finish solutions, strategies, and examples for every environment, from single computers to enterprise-class networks.

Michael Jang presents patching solutions for Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE, Debian, and other distributions. He systematically covers both distribution-specific tools and widely used community tools, such as apt and yum. This book’s streamlined patch management techniques minimize impacts on users, networks, and administrators, and address applications as well as the underlying OS. Whatever your role in managing Linux systems, Linux Patch Management will reduce your costs, enhance the availability of your systems, and dramatically improve your personal efficiency.

• Consolidating patches on a Red Hat network, including cached updates, as well as patching systems based on RHEL rebuild distributions
• Working with SUSE’s update systems, including YaST Online Update and Zenworks Linux Management
• Making the most of apt commands and the GUI-based Synaptic Package Manager
• Configuring apt for RPM distributions such as Fedora and SUSE Linux
• Creating repositories that can manage gigabytes of patches on diverse Linux systems
• Updating networks of Linux computers without overloading WAN or Internet connections
• Configuring yum clients, including coverage of emerging GUI tools such as Yum Extender

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