Neill Newman wrote:
Aparently SuSE has something similar to up2date, but I don't know too much about it, any SuSE fans care to comment on th autoupdate features of Yast ??
Well, it seems to work well enough! Alan has used it, I've just watched him really, but he ticks the boxes for the kinds of things he wants and off it goes and does its thing. Simple as that, by all accounts...
Jo
Indeed, the SuSE YAST2 online update is as easy as it gets. You click on the update button, it tells you what updates are available and which of those it recommends for your system, you decide what you think you need and then click on a button for it to download and install. You can automate the whole procedure as much or as little as you like.
A short while back, I decided to go through the security of my SuSE system and downloaded a SuSE hardening script, a firewall script and a security checker that checks my system for changes daily, weekly and monthly. It took 15 minutes to finish setting up everything. I thought the harden script would inconvenience me in some way but I haven't noticed it at all. Though when I look at files like /etc/hosts.deny, they are hardened versions with good security settings.
For what it is worth, SuSE claim to have had the first dedicated security team on any linux dist. and the previous team leader who still works for SuSE has a decent page you can grab the latest stuff from. http://www.suse.com/~marc
I'm sure all distributions are very security aware. Though I can only vouch for the convenience of SuSE.
Joss
It may just be my ISP (Pipex), but I have noticed that slashdot.org has been down since yesterday afternoon each time I have tried to access it. Anyone else having this problem?
Ashley
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 12:43:41PM -0400, Ashley T. Howes wrote:
It may just be my ISP (Pipex), but I have noticed that slashdot.org has been down since yesterday afternoon each time I have tried to access it. Anyone else having this problem?
Yes, most of OSDN is down. Apparently Exodus are having routing problems. Rumour is that their Cisco admin quit also.
If you want more info ask in #osdn on openprojects.net, don't ask in #slashdot (too many people have already and the admins are getting twitchy ban fingers...)
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Joss Winn wrote:
Indeed, the SuSE YAST2 online update is as easy as it gets. You click on the update button, it tells you what updates are available and which of those it recommends for your system, you decide what you think you need and then click on a button for it to download and install. You can automate the whole procedure as much or as little as you like.
Sorry to be pedantic but the best distribution IMHO for security updates does have to be Debian (I am a hardcore Debian fan though :-)), if you go here http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe and sign up for Debian Security Announce and add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
you will get an email whenever a new package has been released to fix a security problem and all you will have to type (as root) is
apt-get update apt-get upgrade
and it will automatically download updated packages and install them for you.
Of course this only works on stable releases of Debian (which can be a little lacking in latest features of other distros) but is apt-get has to be one of the best reasons for taking the time to install and configure Debian when just starting out.
Although I must say I havn't had any experience of SuSE since 6.2 so maybe there tool is easier to use etc.
Adam
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