I think Netatalk might be a really old mac protocol. These days Apple and Linux (and probably BSD) use CUPS. I've never seen a reason to enable the atalk service.
But if you see security updates for 'cups', yeah you want those for your printer. On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 10:27 AM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/31/18 9:26 AM, Ben Koenig wrote: > > These are mostly security updates that it pulls in. Set a schedule based > on > > your wants and needs. > > > > Some people do weekly. Others monthly. In some cases users will check for > > updates and make a decision to update based on their use case. There is > no > > right or wrong way. > > > > To get a sense of how often Slackware pushes out security updates, and > the > > importance of these updates, check the changelog > > http://www.slackware.com/changelog/stable.php?cpu=x86_64 > > Looking at that list, if I hadn't already done the upgrade the other > day, I would say I should do it to get the Thunderbird and Firefox > fixes. The Netatalk I'm not sure about. I read that it's an Apple Filing > Protocol and is used for print servers. At the moment that's not an > issue because I haven't got a working (on Linux) printer. But I will be > trying to get our Brother 7820N printer working again. It is a network > printer and works on my wife's Win7 machine, and has worked on my Ubuntu > machines. For some reason it fails to work after awhile. I can't be more > specific about "awhile" because of how infrequently I print anything. > It's possible some Ubuntu upgrade overwrites the Brother driver. > > Anyway, based on my reading of the above link, It looks like I don't > need to do anything soon. I like the idea of setting a schedule, but not > an automated running of the update. What I might do is set up a CRON > entry to send me an email once a month to remind me to run the script > from the earlier post. > > Thanks for the ideas. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
