I don't remeber the name, but I definately remember something coming across Freshmeat within the last week that does exactly that. John Kloian III ____________________________________________________________________________ Vice President Wired Global Communications, Inc. Phone: 602.674.9900 ext. 103 "Specializing in Open Source Network Solutions" Fax: 602.674.8725 http://www.wiredglobal.net On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Jay wrote: > > > Hey Jiva. Although I don't keep up on the RH stuff, I think I saw > something like this come across the daily Freshmeat batch within the last > week or so. You may want to do a search over there. > > Question -- What packages were sploited on their systems? Share with the > rest of us some of the details so that we can all make sure we're up to > date... :) > > ~Jay > > > On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 jiva@devware.com wrote: > > > 2 count em 2 of my friends running linux discovered tonight their > > machines had been rooted! And the only reason was because they didn't > > keep their packages up to date. Does anyone know of a script that'll > > get just the latest security fixes on RedHat? > > -- > > I think I am an overnight sensation right now!! > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > - J a y J a c o b s o n > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > - President / CEO Wired Global Communications, Inc. > - Fax: 602.674.8725 Internet Engineering Solutions > - Voice: 602.674.9900 http://www.wiredglobal.net > > In a world where an admin is rendered useless when the ball in his mouse > has been taken out, it is good to know that I know UNIX. > > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >