On 1/21/2011 6:22 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
Thanks for the comments, Neil. Do you have any specific
recommendations on how to avoid these problems?
(Eli can comment more, but the current downtime is because the machine
that runs planet (and a bunch of other services) was hacked and its
operating system is being re-installed now. We're not sure when it
will be back.)
Do you need any help on this? How are you planning on keeping the system
clean in the future, and do I need to worry about rootkits in the binary
Racket distributions?
Keeping a system up to date can be tricky; for "set it and forget it"
systems I tend to use the LTS version of Ubuntu with unattended-upgrades
and Ksplice for kernel security patches. There's no guarantee that you
won't be affected by a zero-day that way, but at least you can prevent
the system from falling behind on a critical update.
--
Brian Mastenbrook
br...@mastenbrook.net
http://brian.mastenbrook.net/
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