 | | | RedHat ES: installing on multiple servers with one license | RedHat ES: installing on multiple servers with one license 2004-03-01 - By Tom Diehl
Back
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, werner maes wrote:
> At 15:54 1/03/2004, you wrote:
> >On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 02:42:20PM +0100, werner maes wrote:
> > > That 's why I assume that it is free to use RHEL if you don 't want
> > support
> > > and don 't use RedHat Network (which is impossible anyway)
> >
> >One of those services is binary updates. You may not legally apply
> >those to multiple systems without buying multiple subscriptions.
>
> And is it legal to download the updated source RPM, compile it yourself and
> then apply this created RPM to multiple systems?
One thing you might want to consider is buying RHPW. Currently it can be gotten
from staples for $50.00 USD. I think you can buy it directly from Red Hat for
~$80.00. That gets you ~90% of RHEL minus the support. Then you only have to
worry about maintaining the server specific packages that are not included.
Granted Red Hat will not support this configuration but RHPW only includes
installation support and 1 year of rhn. To me the rhn subscription is what I
need. The fact that I have to build and maintain a few packages myself
is acceptable to me. The fact that I do not have to do 90% of it myself is
IMO a good thing.
Throwing the locally built packages in a yum repo makes keeping the machines
up2date easy.
HTH,
Tom
--
Taroon-list mailing list
Taroon-list@(protected)
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list
|
|
|