On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 14:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Carla Schroder writes: > > > I'm so confused. :) And feeling like a bit of a dunce, after all these years > > of using Linux. How do distributions handle applying kernel security patches? > > Like Debian and Red Hat? None of my machines have kernel sources. I use > > up2date on Red Hat boxes, and of course have the usual security sources in my > > Debian sources.list. So are my kernels getting updated or not? > > > > I believe that it greatly depends upon the versions which you're updating > and how your preferences are set. > > I believe, and this is after much head scratching, that by default up2date > on Redhat versions I've used (7.3 and older) will *not* update your kernel, > even if it does download the kernel rpms. I have no experience with Debian. > > Some quick googling on the subject yielded: > > http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=194098 > http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/kernel-upgrade/ > > Hope this is helpful. > In Fedora, it installs the new kernel, makes it the default boot option in grub, but leaves all the old ones as boot options in grub. I seem to remember red hat doing the same. -- Bill Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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