Security Updates
What mailing list or web page do I want to check regularly for security updates and kernel updates? Is there a way I can be notified without having to check?
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Quoted 3 lines · Paul Kraus
What mailing list or web page do I want to check regularly for security updates and kernel updates? Is there a way I can be notified without having to check?
The best known generic security list is bugtraq. I don't have the URL or mailing-list FQN at hand, but I imagine Google will find them for you.
Once you get past the generic level, this is a distro-specific question ... getting prompt security updates is, to my mind, one of the top selling points of any distro. Most of the major distros have security lists, and related online package directories, for this purpose. (That's why I don't recall how to access bugtraq, for example; I found that the debian-security list covers my own needs very reliably.) I seem to recall that you use Red Hat, and I've seen references to a Red Hat security list ... you probably want to check the RH Web site.
Kernels are trickier, since (usually) new kernels are released for reasons other than to fix security problems, so don't get reported on the security lists. Still, the major packages are all very good about making newer stable (that is, 2.4.x right now) kernels available promptly, so I'd recommend keeping track of this via your basic on-line package-management system (whatever RH's analog to Debian's apt-* system is).
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Quoted 3 lines · Paul Kraus
What mailing list or web page do I want to check regularly for security updates and kernel updates? Is there a way I can be notified without having to check?
Maybe you're less newbie than me and already know this, but I'll try and give a piece of important advice in the way of kernel updating just in case. Advice follows: be sure to make a backup of your current working kernel before trying to recompile or compile a new one. Name it "vmlinuz-2.4.x-x_backup" or something like that. Then, if your recompile or new compile is less than successful, you can boot to one you know works ok on your system. Doing that could have saved me some headaches in the past.
James
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