9.4.2.2. Updating Through the Website

To install packages or patches on an individual system, click the name of the system in the Systems category, select the packages from the Upgrade or Install lists of the Packages or Patches tab, and click Install/Upgrade Selected Packages.

To run a remote command while installing the package, click Run Remote Command rather than Confirm. Refer to Section 9.5, “Remote Commands” for instructions.

To install packages or patches on multiple systems at once, select the systems and click System Set Manager in the left navigation bar. Then, in the Packages tab, select the packages from the Upgrade or Install lists and click Install/Upgrade Packages. To complete the action, schedule the updates.

On Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, the rhnsd daemon, which instructs the client system to check in with RHN, automatically starts at boot time. On Solaris systems, rhnsddoes not start at boot time by default. It can be started from the command line in this way:

rhnsd --foreground --interval=240

The default location for rhnsd is /opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/usr/sbin/rhnsd. Below are the available options for rhnsd on Solaris:

Option	Description
`-f, --foreground`	Run in foreground
`-i, --interval=MINS`	Connect to Red Hat Network every MINS minutes
`-v, --verbose`	Log all actions to syslog
`-h, --help`	Give this help list
`-u, --usage`	Give this help list
`-V, --version`	Print program version

Table 9.2. rhnsd Options