The certificate used by up2date and rhn_register to communicate with Red Hat Network reached its end of life on August 28th, 2003. Users attempting to connect to Red Hat Network will see SSL connection or certificate verification failures.
For each distribution supported by Red Hat, you will find the latest
versions of the RHN client software listed below. To install these
packages, please follow these steps:
Download the appropriate packages for your distribution, listed below.
Next to the link, you will find the MD5 checksum for the file. An MD5 checksum is designed to verify that the file on your system is identical to the file provided by RHN. After downloading your RPMs, please verify each file from your host system with the following command:
[user@localhost user]$ md5sum 'filename'
Install the RPMs as the root user. You must install both the 'up2date' and 'up2date-gnome' RPMs with the same command, for example:
[user@localhost user]$ su
Password: (enter root password)
[root@localhost user]# rpm -Fvh up2date-*
If you have already registered with up2date, then after installing these (or any other) RPMs from the command line, you should update the package profile on the RHN servers for your system:
[root@localhost user]# up2date -p
The errata associated with the packages below are RHSA-2003-267 and RHSA-2003-268 - "New up2date available with updated SSL certificate authority file." See:
If your distribution is not listed below, the latest RHN certificate is also available here. If your distribution of Red Hat Linux or Red Hat Enterprise Linux is listed below, we highly recommend that you obtain the certificate by downloading the latest version of up2date following the instructions above instead of installing it manually.
Red Hat Network Client Software