> Must one register with redhat to use up2date against a local
repo?
>
Yes. At the moment at least, though I don't have any
plans to change that at this point.
fair enough.
> One problem i had was caused by an old systemid file from the
7.3 era.
> No matter what i typed i got the error shown below. It would be nice
> if rhn_register had a --force option or even better ask if it should
> ignore or use the the current systemid file.
>
`up2date --register` or `rhn_register --register` will
"force" a reregister.
Isn't rhn_register --register a bit redundant? ;o)
Anyway after restoring the _old_ systemid file the problem still existed:
# up2date --register
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 25, in ?
from up2date_client import repoDirector
File "repoDirector.py", line 12, in ?
File "rhnChannel.py", line 128, in getChannels
File "up2dateAuth.py", line 150, in getLoginInfo
File "up2dateAuth.py", line 104, in login
File "up2dateAuth.py", line 60, in maybeUpdateVersion
up2date_client.up2dateErrors.CommunicationError: Error communicating with server. The
message was:
Error Message:
Please run rhn_register (or up2date --register on Red Hat Linux 8.0)
as root on this client
Error Class Code: 9
Error Class Info: Invalid Server Certificate.
Explanation:
An error has occurred while processing your request. If this problem
persists please enter a bug report at
bugzilla.redhat.com.
If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include
details of what you were trying to do when this error occurred and
details on how to reproduce this problem.
Thanks for the reply Adrian,
Sean