On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:14:08AM +0000, Eggert Thorlacius wrote: > What about running "yum update" from a cronjob every day? I'll admit > that I am no expert on Linux security, but aren't most attacks > exploiting known vulnerabilities that have already been fixed, and thus > only work against boxes that haven't been patched properly?
Well, among other things, if you're running ivtv drivers, note that you have manual work to do if the updater updates a kernel. SuSE has hooks for this; I don't know how general they are. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system adminstrator. Or two. --me
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