[TriLUG] web/ftp server install q

[Jon Carnes]

Unless you have a lot of free time and only babysit one server, then
you'll be better off going with RedHat's package management system and
using Up2date.  The errata packages will naturally lag the source fixes
but not by much!  In general the RPM fix for a vulnerability will follow
within 8 hours of the fix being available via source.

The slowest I've seen an rpm fix come out in rpm is 2 days after the
Source was fixed.  Of course that can seem like an eternity!

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 09:26, Douglas Kojetin wrote:
> Hi All-
> 
> Quick question ... for setting up a webserver (or an ftp server) ...
> would you rely on the default RedHat 8.0 installation of the packages
> (apache, mysql, etc ...)?  Or should I manually install each program?  
> 
> How "up2date" is the Red Hat package update system?  (i.e.  is it better
> to rely on it or doing the updates myself with software directly from
> each respective website)?
> 
> Thanks!
> Doug
> 
> 
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