[Techtalk] RHN problem

[Samantha Blackmon]

I had the same problem last month :-)
>From the RH site

On August 28th, the SSL certificates used by up2date, rhn_register, and the
RHN applet expired. Systems attempting to connect to RHN using an older
certificate will receive 'certificate verify failed' errors. Please see the
following instructions to download the latest versions of up2date and
rhn_register.

https://rhn.redhat.com/

Samantha (aka Technogrrl)

-----Original Message-----
From: techtalk-bounces at linuxchix.org [mailto:techtalk-bounces at linuxchix.org]
On Behalf Of Hanlie Pretorius
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 1:01 AM
To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
Subject: [Techtalk] RHN problem



Hi,

I use RH8.0 and Gnome and I have a problem connecting to RHN for updates.

The RHN alert icon displays in my toolbar and seems to be able to speak to
RHN because it flashes a red excalamtion mark.

However, when I try to run up2date nothing happens. When I run up2date
--register, I get the error: "Fatal error retrieveing privacy statement:
connection refused."

I'm behind an HTTP proxy server, so I configured the RHN Alert Notification
Tool with the proxy server's IP address with port 80 at the end, my username
and my password. But every time I enter the configuration, the Enable HTTP
Proxy check box is deselected.

On the RHN webpage my system is listed as "not checking in".

I checked the RHNSD service and it's running.

I've updated my RHN security certificate and I've sucessfully used RHN since
then.

I would really appreciate any help.

(Perhaps the answer is to switch to Mandrake? :-) Do they have a similar
automatic update service?)

Thanks
Hanlie




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