At 05:52 PM 1/1/01 +0530, you wrote:
>Both the servers run the stock 2.2.14-5.0 kernel which i believe is chock
>full of security problems ..
>I wouldn't like to lose the Redhat & SuSE patches to the kernel , which i
>would in case i upgrade the kernel with the latest tarballs from kernel.org .
Simple workaround to that - unpack the kernel source from the rpm you get
in the CD ... use the config file you find in that source tree to upgrade
your new kernel.
You will also find the patches used by redhat and SuSE on those kernels in
the tree (though, imho, you will not need those patches. I've been running
several redhat 6.2 servers with recompiled 2.2.17 kernels (using the same
config file used by the redhat kernels - they'll be in a directory called
configs/ in the kernel source tree). Pretty good results (much better than
using the redhat customized version, IMHO).
>Can anyone guide me to the specific .rpms for both distros ?
take a look at the kernel-source (or whatever) rpm. Going to the rpms
directory on the CD and doing an ls|grep kernel will get you the rpm ...
>Would i have to recompile Sendmail/ Apache etc to work with the patched
>kernel ?
No - but it is a good thing to do (compiled sendmail and apache are far
better optimized - and more secure, as you are getting the latest version -
than the RPMs on the CD)
>When in upgraded to 2.2.18 on my Laptop, I had to recompile a
>couple of packages like the pcmcia-cs ...
kernel modules afaik ... you might have to recompile those. Ditto with
your network card drivers and such (if you are using some nonstandard
network card / modem for which you have to download a driver from someplace
... )
Suresh Ramasubramanian + mallet<@>efn.org
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