only familiar with patching in the wintel world.
major revisions through service packs.
regular updates- grab from microsoft through various means

how do we do this in the linux world.
how do a find what has been installed?
how do i find a patch number or level?
what do i do, where do i go to install patches.

i have rhel 3 or 4 running on a hp proliant server.

never done this before.

ron

thanks in advance.

ron

Different distros handle it in different ways, and linux being linux, you can set it up to handle updates on it's own, or to do them manually yourself. I'm an ubuntu guy, so I know how apt handles it, but redhat is a little different. I did find a few links though.....

http://www.ducea.com/2006/08/11/rhel...te-4-released/
http://www.ducea.com/2006/09/11/yum-...-repositories/
http://www.ducea.com/2006/10/13/yum-...ystem-updates/

Are you paying Redhat for support ? My guess is no, or you'd know this stuff already. The reason I ask is that I don't know what the advantage of using RHEL is if you aren't paying them for support. They are expensive I know, but worth it if you have important data to protect. They are one of the good guys, and worth the money for businesses. If you are running your own server though, I would think another distro might better suit you. Something community supported. Also, whatever distro you go with, even RHEL, you would be wise to use the latest version, if for no other reason than uptodate security patches. I'm sure plenty of people here have experience with different distros, and would recommend something that has worked for them....if you are a little new to linux, I think ubuntu-server does the most hand holding for you....if you are going to stay with RHEL I'd get some kind of auto update feature set up, unless you have the skills and time to update manually, with a few thousand rpm's.

Good luck....

David

man i don't known about your this comments ,acutlly i am also face a problem when i mount ntfs partition in linux Rhel4 as plz check and submit other my this issue and kindly give me the step by step proccedure to solve my problem
i apply these command on linux

[root@bukhari ~]# mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/ntfs
mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel
[root@bukhari ~]# mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/ntfs -t ntfs
mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel

Partition status is just like that

[root@bukhari ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1026 8241313+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 1027 4864 30828735 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1670 2692 8217216 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 2693 4864 17446558+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda7 1027 1039 104359+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 1040 1170 1052226 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda9 1171 1669 4008186 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order

and my kernel is

[root@bukhari ~]# uname -r
2.6.9-34.EL
[root@bukhari ~]# rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.80
kernel-devel-2.6.9-34.EL
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-34.EL
kernel-doc-2.6.9-34.EL
kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL-2.1.20-0.rr.10.0
kernel-2.6.9-34.EL
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-34.EL
[root@bukhari ~]# rpm -qa kernel
kernel-2.6.9-34.EL
[root@bukhari ~]#

what i do plz tell me the easly way to solve this problem step by step thanks