Specifications

Patches for the Admin CD

There are two possibilities here:

Via the SuSE Maintenance Web

the above URL). Under ‘Products’, select the SuSE Firewall on CD— Ad-

minhost or, if you have installed the VPN module, Adminhost with VPN,

then choose the needed patches. Detailed documentation is available for each

patch.

Using YOU (YaST Online Update)

The SuSE Tool YOU establishes a connection to the SuSE Maintenance Web

and checks to see which patches are relevant to your system. These packages

are then installed automatically by YOU on your Adminhost. The log is then

displayed, if desired.

Start YOU from KDE with the YaST2 control center or from a console win-

dow (like xterm) by logging in as the user root with sux - then entering

yast2.

Note

YOU uses the software package wget to download patches. If this

package is not yet installed on your Adminhost, install it ﬁrst.

Note

Check to see if package wget is installed with rpm -q wget. If not, Use

YaST2 (‘YaST2’ ➝ ‘Install software’ ➝ ‘Search’ then enter wget) to install the

package.

If you make a direct connection to the outside, no further settings are neces-

sary. If the connection is established via a proxy, the ﬁle /etc/wgetrc must

be adjusted. Open the ﬁle /etc/wgetrc with an editor of your choice. En-

ter the following line:

http_proxy = http://hyour_proxyi:hporti/

hyour_proxyi is the name of your proxy server and hporti is the port number

to which the proxy is listening. Specify the HTTP proxy to use, not the FTP

proxy. Patches are always downloaded via HTTP, not via FTP.

Patches for the Live CD

The patches for the Live CD are made available in the form of an RPM pack-

age. This RPM package contains an ISO ﬁle (the new Live CD). As with the

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