up2date

[Nobody's Hero]

I am having trouble connecting to the RedHat network to update my system.
When launching Up2Date, the service returns an error stating it cannot contact RHN for first check-in.
ANy idea how I can check if I can communicate properly.

Can I disable some linux ipchain firewall stuff or something?

[Stuart Browne]

A few things to check first:

From the server, can you go th RedHat's RHN web-page, and log in? ( http://www.redhat.com/software/rhn/ )

What distribution are you actually using?

What are the exact words of the error messages?

[Nobody's Hero]

Redhat Version Enterprise 3.

[Ivan Ferreira]

Try installing the latest up2date RHN packages. Sometimes, and old up2date package may not comunicate properly with RHN.

[Gopi Sekar]

do you have RHN subscription? if not get one.

Ensure your system can connect to internet. RHN requires network connection.

Another possibility could be a firewall blocking your connections. Try disabling firewall 'service iptables stop'

Hope this helps,
Gopi

[Andrew Cowan]

To use up2date port 443 (https) must be open, and DNS resolution available. If either of these has a problem the red up2date icon will be shown as greyed-out.
Try "dig rhn.redhat.com". If this works OK try "up2date -u" from the command-line.