[TriLUG] Where can I find a current server for a Red Hat 7.1 box??

[Matt Hoover]

> Be careful of glibc and other updates that are compiled for multiple
> architectures though.  (Maybe that's what you meant by get rid of any
> duplicates.)  On Red Hat Linux 9, for example, if you install 
> the glibc
> i386 update on a system that previously had i686 installed, 
> your system
> will be hosed.  This is because the i386 glibc does not 
> support the NPTL
> system that's used in RHL 9. 
> 
> I don't think there's a similar problem in RHL 7.1, but you still want
> to have the architecture-specific versions if you have an
> i686-compatible processor (which includes Athlons).

This is exactly what I am worrying about.  I know that I need to get a
latter glibc, and I want to make sure that I install the correct one.
I have downloaded all of the glibc rpms, and I am trying to figure out
which one is currently installed.  When I run:
rpm -q -i glibc
it returns the version number of the glibc rpm that is installed, but I
have not figured out how to find the architecture that is currently
installed.
The problem is that I have both an i386 and an i686 version of the rpm.
This machine is new enough  that I am pretty sure that I want to use
the i686 version, but it would be nice to be able to verify that.

In another message it was suggested that I just create a new demo
account at Red Hat.  Right now this machine is saying that it is not
entitled to access rhn.  If I delete the systemid file, and re-run
register_rhn, will it let me create a new account?

Once again thanks for all of the help.
--matt
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