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SearchOpenSource: Updating SuSE Linux Clients from a Local Update Server

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 24, 2006

[ Thanks to Jane Walker for this link.
]

“In my last tip, we set up a single internal YaST Online Update
(YOU) server to pick up updated software from the SuSE mirrors.
Now, we’re going to answer the question: How do clients connect to
the server?

“Let’s review. In setting up the single internal YaST Online
Update server, the idea was to minimize the load on the existing
mirrors by having one machine hit the outside servers, instead of
however many client machines you have, and enhance security by
keeping updates inside your firewall…”


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