Rug - Novell ZENWORKS LINUX MANAGEMENT 7.2 IR2 - ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 09-25-2008 Administration Manual

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Name
rug - The command line interface for the Novell ZENworks Linux Management Agent.
Syntax
rug [global-options] [command] [command-options] ...
rug --version
rug --help
Description
rug is the command-line interface to the ZENworks Linux Management agent. It works with the
ZENworks Linux Management daemon to install, update, and remove software according to the
commands you give it. The software that it installs can be from ZENworks 7.x Linux Management,
ZENworks 6.6.x Linux Management servers, YUM repositories, the ZYPP service, as well as local
files.
ZENworks Linux Management servers sort software by category into catalogs, which are groups of
similar software. For example, one catalog can contain software from the operating system vendor,
and another catalog can contain the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. You can subscribe to
individual catalogs to control the display of available packages and prevent the accidental
installation of unwanted software. By default, all operations are performed on software from within
catalogs to which you are subscribed, although you may alter this with the --allow-
unsubscribed flag. The rug utility also provides other features, such as rollback, locks, history
and preferences to easily manage packages and bundles.
Depending on the type of managed device, the location of the rug utility varies.
For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES 10) and SUSE LINUX Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED
10) devices, the rug utility is located in the following directory:
/usr/bin
On all other managed devices, the rug utility is installed in the following location:
/opt/novell/zenworks/bin
Guide to Usage
This section contains a guide to general command formatting and conventions.
Folders
If no folder is specified for commands that take a folder argument, the command targets the
root folder. To specify a folder path, list each folder from the root separated by a forward slash
(/). For example, if you have a folder named folder1 in the root, containing a subfolder named
subfolder1, you would reference this folder as folder1/subfolder1. Each specified folder must
already exist.
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