Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged

2021-06-22 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-06-22 02:34 Gordon Messmer ha scritto: CentOS Stream is not a rolling release.  It gets "rolling updates," but that just means that there are no point releases within a major release, and that updates aren't delayed in order to group rebased packages together at 6 month intervals. Hi

Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged

2021-06-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/21/21 4:53 AM, Gionatan Danti wrote: Historically the CentOS team refused to provide such metadata due to the added work required. Now with Stream, and the demise of classic CentOS, security updates are even less probable (ie: a rolling release is often wholly updated). CentOS Stream

Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged

2021-06-21 Thread Simon Matter
you have received this e-mail in > error, please notify the sender by return e-mail and > then delete it. > > > > From: CentOS on behalf of Gionatan Danti > > Sent: Monday, June 21, 2021 01:53 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly fl

Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged

2021-06-21 Thread Lange, Markus
Historically the CentOS team refused to provide such metadata due to > the > added work required. Now with Stream, and the demise of classic > CentOS, > security updates are even less probable (ie: a rolling release is > often > wholly updated). > > Regards. >

Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged

2021-06-21 Thread Doczkal, Thomas
and then delete it. From: CentOS on behalf of Gionatan Danti Sent: Monday, June 21, 2021 01:53 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged Il 2021-06-21 13:34 Pete Biggs ha scritto: > CentOS does not prov

Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged

2021-06-21 Thread Gionatan Danti
, and the demise of classic CentOS, security updates are even less probable (ie: a rolling release is often wholly updated). Regards. -- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it email: g.da...@assyoma.it - i...@assyoma.it GPG public key ID: FF5F32A8

Re: [CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged

2021-06-21 Thread Pete Biggs
> > There are probably more security updates which should be installed by > yum --security but those are the packages I am most interested in. > > Please change as necessary to allow yum --security to work. > CentOS does not provide the metadata to allow the --security flag to work. It doesn't

[CentOS] Security Updates not properly flagged

2021-06-21 Thread Doczkal, Thomas
Hi, I assumed that it's possible to install security updates with "yum --security update". On the centos-announce mailinglist and I have received several security updates recently. Most are not relevant for us but glib2 and kernel are two we would like to address without updating the whole

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-18 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Timothy Murphy Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 1:33 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] security updates? However, I don't think people who ask reasonable questions politely should

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-18 Thread Alain Péan
Le 18/03/2011 01:32, Timothy Murphy a écrit : I don't think the OP did ask when 5.6 would be ready. What he/she said, IIRC, was that Karanbir had suggested that 5.6 would be out last week, and he/she was asking if there had been a problem. This is exactly the point. I can add that all my

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-17 Thread Alain Péan
Le 17/03/2011 16:02, Hendrik a écrit : Hello, There are several important security updates available: Critical: firefox security and bug fix update Important: tomcat5 security update Important: vsftpd security update Moderate: subversion security and bug fix update Important: logwatch

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-17 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Alain Péan Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 4:09 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] security updates? May I ask the develloppers if we can have some update about the status

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-17 Thread m . roth
Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Alain Péan Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 4:09 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] security updates? May I ask the develloppers if we can have some update

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-17 Thread Alain Péan
Le 17/03/2011 16:25, m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit : Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Alain Péan Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 4:09 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] security updates

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-17 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of m.r...@5-cent.us Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 4:25 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] security updates? You beat me to it: *PLEASE* don't start this up again I got

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-17 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Alain Péan Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 4:34 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] security updates? With all due respect, the release was announced to be ready last week

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-17 Thread Neil Viglieno
On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 16:34 +0100, Alain Péan wrote: With all due respect, the release was announced to be ready last week, and planned for the end of the week. One week later, I don't see anything. I think having some news once a week is something feasible, and I don' want to start a

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-17 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Neil Viglieno n...@viglieno.net wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 16:34 +0100, Alain Péan wrote: With all due respect, the release was announced to be ready last week, and planned for the end of the week. One week later, I don't see anything. I think having some

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-17 Thread Alain Péan
Le 17/03/2011 17:19, Tom H a écrit : On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Neil Viglienon...@viglieno.net wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 16:34 +0100, Alain Péan wrote: With all due respect, the release was announced to be ready last week, and planned for the end of the week. One week later, I don't

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-17 Thread Alain Péan
Le 17/03/2011 17:23, Alain Péan a écrit : Le 17/03/2011 17:19, Tom H a écrit : On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Neil Viglienon...@viglieno.net wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 16:34 +0100, Alain Péan wrote: With all due respect, the release was announced to be ready last week, and planned for

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-17 Thread Alain Péan
Le 17/03/2011 17:25, Alain Péan a écrit : Le 17/03/2011 17:23, Alain Péan a écrit : Le 17/03/2011 17:19, Tom H a écrit : On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Neil Viglienon...@viglieno.netwrote: On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 16:34 +0100, Alain Péan wrote: With all due respect, the release was

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-17 Thread m . roth
Alain Péan wrote: Le 17/03/2011 17:25, Alain Péan a écrit : Le 17/03/2011 17:23, Alain Péan a écrit : Le 17/03/2011 17:19, Tom H a écrit : On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Neil Viglienon...@viglieno.net wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 16:34 +0100, Alain Péan wrote: With all due respect, the

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-17 Thread Chris Weisiger
--- On Thu, 3/17/11, m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: From: m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us Subject: Re: [CentOS] security updates? To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011, 11:35 AM Alain Péan wrote: Le 17/03/2011 17:25, Alain Péan a écrit

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-17 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Chris Weisiger cweisi...@bellsouth.net wrote: I really appreciate all the people involved with the building and rebranding of redhat to create the centos distribution. If i had the time and dedication, I would definitely put forth the effort to help, but I

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-17 Thread Timothy Murphy
Sorin Srbu wrote: Can we please, please, pretty please with a cherry on top, not start this dance again? Don't you think there is something slightly farcical about posting messages suggesting people should stop posting messages? V5.6 will be done when it's done, okay? I don't think the OP

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-17 Thread Dag Wieers
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Timothy Murphy wrote: Sorin Srbu wrote: V5.6 will be done when it's done, okay? I don't think the OP did ask when 5.6 would be ready. What he/she said, IIRC, was that Karanbir had suggested that 5.6 would be out last week, and he/she was asking if there had been a

[CentOS] Security updates for CentOS-5

2011-03-09 Thread Mark Foster
Hello, I was wondering why there haven't seemed to be any security updates for centos-5 since Jan 6. Per https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel-server-errata.html there are a ton of outstanding issues. Thanks. -- Mark D. Foster m...@foster.cc http://mark.foster.cc/

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for CentOS-5

2011-03-09 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 03/09/2011 04:45 PM, Mark Foster wrote: Hello, I was wondering why there haven't seemed to be any security updates for centos-5 since Jan 6. Per https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel-server-errata.html there are a ton of outstanding issues. Thanks. All of those apply to 5.6 ( where apply

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for CentOS-5

2011-03-09 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 05:45:22 pm Mark Foster wrote: Hello, I was wondering why there haven't seemed to be any security updates for centos-5 since Jan 6. Per https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel-server-errata.html there are a ton of outstanding issues. Thanks. See the on-going thread

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for CentOS-5

2011-03-09 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
On 3/9/11 5:45 PM, Mark Foster wrote: Hello, I was wondering why there haven't seemed to be any security updates for centos-5 since Jan 6. Per https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel-server-errata.html there are a ton of outstanding issues. Thanks. My solution at least for the kernel, was to get

Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-12 Thread John Hinton
On 10/11/2010 9:17 AM, John Doe wrote: From: Giles Coocheygi...@coochey.net On Mon, October 11, 2010 13:36, Ritika Garg wrote: I can't understand exactly what these security updates do? Why is there a need to have a security update? What is your IP? :-D Keep this information secret,

Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-12 Thread Keith Keller
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 06:11:49PM -0400, John Hinton wrote: Secure? Yes, as long as you apply the updates as needed. You can always read about why there is a patch and decide if it is applicable to your situation. Somewhat related to this, does anybody know (or have links to) what work,

Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-12 Thread Phil Schaffner
Keith Keller wrote on 10/12/2010 06:35 PM: Somewhat related to this, does anybody know (or have links to) what work, if any, is happening with the yum security plugin? The only information I could find was some posts from Karanbir from last year, basically saying it was a low priority because

[CentOS] security updates

2010-10-11 Thread Ritika Garg
I can't understand exactly what these security updates do? Why is there a need to have a security update? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-11 Thread Timo Schoeler
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Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-11 Thread Giles Coochey
On Mon, October 11, 2010 13:36, Ritika Garg wrote: I can't understand exactly what these security updates do? Why is there a need to have a security update? ___ What is your IP? :-D ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-11 Thread sync
I have the same problem on it . Isn't the CentOS very safe? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-11 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Am 11.10.10 14:30, schrieb sync: I have the same problem on it . Isn't the CentOS very safe? Okay, I'll bite. From time to time there are bugs found in the software which CentOS ships. These bugs can lead your code to crash, your machine to be denied of service as the process which has the bug

Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-11 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 11/10/10 11:30 PM, sync wrote: I have the same problem on it . Isn't the CentOS very safe? *Sigh* If you don't update it then it won't remain so. It's like buying a brand new deadlock for the door to your house and then leaving the door wide open when you go out. Chances are that sooner or

Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-11 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:30:04 +0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: I have the same problem on it . Isn't the CentOS very safe? If you apply ALL of the security updates as they become available. ALL O/Ss have security updates from time-to-time (what do you think those

Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-11 Thread John Doe
From: Giles Coochey gi...@coochey.net On Mon, October 11, 2010 13:36, Ritika Garg wrote: I can't understand exactly what these security updates do? Why is there a need to have a security update? What is your IP? :-D Keep this information secret, but I think his IP is 127.0.0.1 ... And

Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-11 Thread Morten P.D. Stevens
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:30 PM, sync jian...@gmail.com wrote: I have the same problem on it . Isn't the CentOS very safe? CentOS (RHEL 5) is one of the most secure operating systems worldwide. Best regards, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

2009-10-23 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: nate wrote: slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote: Hello, Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos 5.3 x_64. Just run yum update and you'll get all of the updates that you need that

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

2009-10-22 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Torkil Zachariassen Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:39 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3 On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 11:11 -0500, slchavar

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

2009-10-22 Thread slchavarria
Message: 3 Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:11:20 -0500 From: slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx Subject: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3 To: centos@centos.org Message-ID: of144f4736.2eb08b14-on86257656.0058d70d-86257656.0056a...@gruposalinas.com.mx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello

[CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

2009-10-21 Thread slchavarria
Hello, Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos 5.3 x_64. Thank you in advance and greetings SLCC - Este mensaje y cualquier archivo que se adjunte al mismo es propiedad de Grupo Iusacell y contiene informacion

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

2009-10-21 Thread nate
slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote: Hello, Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos 5.3 x_64. Just run yum update and you'll get all of the updates that you need that are available. nate ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

2009-10-21 Thread Les Mikesell
nate wrote: slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote: Hello, Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos 5.3 x_64. Just run yum update and you'll get all of the updates that you need that are available. Except that you'll probably end up with 5.4 or maybe an

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

2009-10-21 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 21 October 2009, slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote: Hello, Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos 5.3 x_64. All, that is yum update with a standard configuration (note that All here includes updates all the way to 5.x latest (which, as of

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

2009-10-21 Thread Torkil Zachariassen
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 11:11 -0500, slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote: Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos 5.3 x_64. Yum knows :) $ yum --security check-update You may have to install yum-security first: # yum install yum-security .t.

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

2009-10-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/21/2009 11:08 PM, Torkil Zachariassen wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 11:11 -0500, slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote: Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos 5.3 x_64. Yum knows :) $ yum --security check-update You may have to install yum-security

[CentOS] Installing CentOS security updates to RHEL machines? (RHN subscription expired)

2008-11-30 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I hope my question is not annoying. I work as sysadmin at a 400 users firm and we have around 20 CentOS 4/5 servers and VMs and CentOS is awesome, thank you! However we have 4 important SAP-servers running RHEL5 and our RHN subscription has unforunately expired and buying it again is not

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS security updates to RHEL machines? (RHN subscription expired)

2008-11-30 Thread Kenneth Burgener
Alexander Farber wrote: Has anybody have been in a similar situation and figured out a good way to make yum update on RHEL machines to work against CentOS repositories? The CentOS repositories are just a YUM repository. Simply add the '.repo' file to your '/etc/yum.repos.d/' folder. You

RE: [CentOS] Installing CentOS security updates to RHEL machines?(RHN subscription expired)

2008-11-30 Thread Jim Wildman
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, John wrote: And to add to that it will break your Contract with SAP!!! JohnStanley I always find the sentiments from the management of the original poster interesting. They are serious enough about their business to have spent $$$ on SAP to run the business, then they

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS security updates to RHEL machines?(RHN subscription expired)

2008-11-30 Thread Alexander Farber
You don't know our situation and already have an opinion. We already spent 40 Euro for SW licenses this year (and we have only 400 users). And we're an automotive business, so I can understand that management tries to save some money. Regards Alex On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Jim

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS security updates to RHEL machines?(RHN subscription expired)

2008-11-30 Thread Fabian Arrotin
Alexander Farber wrote: You don't know our situation and already have an opinion. We already spent 40 Euro for SW licenses this year (and we have only 400 users). And we're an automotive business, so I can understand that management tries to save some money. Regards Alex On Sun, Nov 30,

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS security updates to RHEL machines?(RHN subscription expired)

2008-11-30 Thread John R Pierce
Alexander Farber wrote: You don't know our situation and already have an opinion. We already spent 40 Euro for SW licenses this year (and we have only 400 users). And we're an automotive business, so I can understand that management tries to save some money. do you understand that if

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS security updates to RHEL machines? (RHN subscription expired)

2008-11-30 Thread Tru Huynh
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 05:02:06PM +0100, Alexander Farber wrote: Hello, .. However we have 4 important SAP-servers running RHEL5 ... Has anybody have been in a similar situation and figured out a good way to make yum update on RHEL machines to work against CentOS repositories?

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS security updates to RHEL machines?(RHN subscription expired)

2008-11-30 Thread Jim Wildman
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, John R Pierce wrote: Alexander Farber wrote: You don't know our situation and already have an opinion. We already spent 40 Euro for SW licenses this year (and we have only 400 users). And we're an automotive business, so I can understand that management tries to