I don't think that this is minor at all. There are all sorts of ways to
automate a majority of security updates. I use apt-get with
security.debian.org in a cron job on a nightly basis to make sure that
my system is up to date on a large number of packages. Of course, this
doesn't cover everything, but it makes the job a lot easier.
Kenny
Bob Bell wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:31:49PM -0500, Derek D. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There are lots of reasons for people to not have these things fixed.
> > The largest one is ignorance. You can't fix something you don't even
> > know is broken.
>
> Minor nit pick, but in some cases you can. I happened to wind up
> with an updated BIND simply by running Red Hat's up2date. I paid
> attention, since I knew about the BIND vulnerability, but had I known
> nothing, I still would have worked around the problem.
>
> --
> Bob Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> "So right now the only vendor that does such a stupid thing is
> Microsoft."
> -- Linus Torvalds on bad file system interface design
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