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Glossary
Errata Alert . The email includes the type of Errata Alert, summary of the Errata,
description of the Errata, and a list of which systems are affected by the report.
Enhancement Alert
An Errata Alert that pertains to a package enhancement request.
Entitled Server
A server that is subscribed to an RHN service level. Because the server is entitled, the
RHN website can be used to manage its packages.
Errata
Information published by Red Hat describing security fixes, bug fixes, and package
enhancements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The information includes the topics
of the Errata, Bugzilla bug IDs, relevant releases/architectures, solutions including
required RPMs, and MD5 checksums for verification. Errata are also available at
http://www.redhat.com/errata/. Each RHN Errata Alert is based on the Red Hat En-
terprise Linux Errata List.
Security issues and bug fixes are submitted by Red Hat engineers as well as the Linux
community through Bugzilla which generates a bug report for each issue. Red Hat
engineering evaluates the reports, resolves the bug, and generates new RPM packages.
After the Red Hat quality assurance team tests new packages they are placed on the
Red Hat Public File Server and on the Red Hat Network Server and an Errata is
generated.
Errata Alert
RHN Errata Alert that updated packages based on Red Hat Errata are available for
one or more systems within an organization. There are three types of Errata Alerts:
Security Alerts, Bug Fix Alerts, and Enhancement Alerts.
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