Quoting Lior Kaplan, from the post of Sun, 04 Sep: > Hi, > > After shlomi's mail about beak, I checked the packages's status and did > an upgrade of 50 packages from security.debian.org (bind9, apache, > webmin, php4...). Please do sanity checks, since I didn't see any > problems after the upgrade. > > another thing - do we need these libraries? They don't have any packages > depending on them. > > beak:~# deborphan -a | grep lib > main/libs libident > main/interpreters libdbd-pg-perl > main/libs libldap2 > main/libs libxml2 > main/libs libgcc1 > main/interpreters libhtml-template-perl > main/non-US libapache-mod-ssl
I'd risk a guess that they are indeed not needed, unless some manuall-added CGI uses them. it's easy to find the atime of the files and see if they are ever used. as for debian security updates, allow to suggest you apt-get install apticron, it's going to run once a day and tell you when things need updating. I never install a machine without it! there's also cron-apt, and they complement eachother nicely. I'd definitely say install both. -- Baked fresh daily Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/
