[TriLUG] The Black Magic of Updating

[William W. Ward]

Sinner -

This is a great collection of tips.  Can you recommend another source of
information that can help put into perspective day-to-day upkeep of a Linux
installation?  Something that circumscribes keeping your Linux workstation
happy and healthy over the long term, by keeping the file system from
corruption, and making back-ups?  What else would be in that list?

A "Care and Feeding" guide would be ideal.

-b-


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sinner from the Prairy" <sinner at escomposlinux.org>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 11:51 AM
Subject: [TriLUG] The Black Magic of Updating


> Hi there,
>
> Recently,a  series of flaws have been discovered on Apache, OpenSSH,
> bind, bitchX... This means that you need to update your machine *right
> now*, unless you want to be "owned"  by root-kits/scipt kiddies/
> blackhat hackers/crackers.
>
> The danger is real. Fortunately, it's (fairly) easy to keep your system
> up to date. How do you update your machine? This is
> distribution-dependant.
>
> Red Hat users surely know and use up2date, either with RedHatNetwork or
> with Current. Check your system needs at https://rhn.redhat.com/
>
> Debian users should know how to keep their system updated with "apt-get
> update".  Check your debian advisory: http://www.debian.org/security/
>
> Mandrake users should use the MandrakeUpdate[*]  utility...except in
> Kernel updates. A good explanation on Mandrake updating can be found
> here:
> http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/magic.php
>
> The advisories can be found here:
> http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/security/mdk-updates.php3?dis=8.2
>
> [*] MandrakeUpdate utility can be called directly through the command
> (as root, on an xterm) "MandrakeUpdate" or through thr Mandrake
> Software Manager "rpmrake", clicking on the "Mandrake Update" icon.
>
> Because some Mandrake updating sources do not seem to be working, I can
> tell you my current configuration:
>
> Type of Source: Security Updates
> SourceName: Security82
> URL:
> ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/8.2/RPMS
>
> Relative path to synthesis or hdlist:
> ../base/hdlist.cz
>
> For SuSE users, YAST2 will solve the update process.
>
>
>
> Anyway, any other distribution update method that you can share?
>
>
>
> Salut,
> Sinner
> --
> http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/     Linux User # 89976
> Running on Mandrake 8.2 - Kernel  2.4.18-6mdk     Linux Machine # 38068
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