Thanks Andy. Good point

From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy Sayler
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 6:19 PM
To: User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System
Subject: Re: [RDD] exporting and sample rate conversion


Craig,

As Fred implies, you generally want to also enable automatic security updates. 
Unless you monitor the security side of Linux and Linux applications closely, 
its easy to miss a security update that makes your server especially vulnerable 
if it's released but you don't apply it. This is a far larger issue if your 
machine is exposed directly to the Internet, but should probably be considered 
even if it isn't unless you are really confident in your firewall and staff.

Generally these updates don't change interfaces or dependencies, so are safer 
to have run automatically than other program updates. Even in the very rare 
case where they break something on your machine, there is an argument that says 
it's better to be secure but broken then working but vulnerable to attack.

If you have an IT department who can monitor all the security patches and 
selectively apply the necessary ones as soon as they are released, great. But 
if not, I'd make sure your Linux machines apply upstream distribution security 
updates automatically.

-Andy Sayler

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 14:06, Craig Albrecht 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Makes good sense. I'll reinstall and only allow Rivendell updates.

Thanks again
Craig

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 On Behalf Of Fred Gleason
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 1:29 PM
To: User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System
Subject: Re: [RDD] exporting and sample rate conversion

On Feb 15, 2012, at 12:40 55, Craig Albrecht wrote:

> One question I have is whether you recommend doing the regular centos updates 
> following installation of the appliance iso.

Unless the system is facing the public Internet, I generally disable all of the 
repositories except 'Paravel-Broadcast' once the system is put into production. 
 That way, you won't be getting nagged to install updates every other day, 
while still getting notifications of Rivendell updates.


> Looks like sample rate conversion is not working on the rdcatch uploads in 
> the appliance version. It is working on an older version I am running on suse 
> 10.2. Wondering if it is a sox issue?

RD 2.x does not use sox(1) at all.

Cheers!


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