RE: [cobalt-users] How To Install Updates?

["Brian R. Poppenwimer" <popper@xxxxxxxxxx>]

->------Original Message-----
->-Hello Gerald,
->-
->-first  -  thanks  all you people for all the help.  while i 
->-am a total
->-newbie  to  raq4 i do understand computers and the net 
->-somewhat.  i am
->-completely  lost  at  what all you people are doing with 
->-these command
->-lines you are posting.  i bought this machine so that i 
->-didn't have to
->-do all that, and now find out i have a brand new out of date os raq4.
->-
->-i  don't understand why sun didn't install the latest 
->-software on this
->-machine.   anyway  can  someone post a 1-2-3- type Basic 
->-Step of how i
->-put  all  those  friggin  patches  on  my  machine.  i have 
->-this thing
->-plugged  into a router, and am puzzled how you guys are even 
->-finding a
->-a place to type command lines in the browser interface?

To use the command lines you install the ssh package off of the cobalt
site that Taco made available.  Then get an ssh client for your machine.
At this point you can then login to the command prompt and issue
commands.  Oh yeah, turn off telnet and don't use that at all.

->-
->-ps  hoping you'll tell me this patch stuff is a simple pick 
->-and click?
->-dreaming, dreaming?

The simplest way I find to do my patches, is to:

1) download patch off cobalt website
2) go to maintenance
3) go to install software
4) check upload and click on browse
5) browse for the file on your computer and click open
6) click install package and sit back and watch
7) Rinse
8) Repeat

A lot of the main software can be installed this way, but every once in
a while you need to hit the command line, especially if you want to get
stuff like logcheck installed.  Sometimes there are some maintenance
tasks that can only be done at the command line, or are just easier to
take care of there.

Hope this helps a bit.
Later,
---Brian

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Brian R. Poppenwimer, CNE, MCP
popper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Director Of Computer Operations
Nelson & Pope
www.nelsonpope.com


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