Something must be done! (Security)

Bob George mailings@bobspc.dhs.org
Fri, 3 Mar 2000 01:12:43 -0700


<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?

There was a package called FreshRPMs that I used for a while. If used
carefully, it might help. Just make sure a 'stable' source of RPMs is used
to avoid problems.

- Bob