Re: fedora security update

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

cc'ing fedora-security-list.

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy <
kashyapc(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:

>  On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Naveen Dhulipudi <
>  Naveen_Dhulipudi(a)infosys.com&gt; wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >  please any one help me by letting me know how to subscibe for security
> > patch updates for fedora instance.so that i will get the updates through
> > mail / any website that give me the updates.
> >
>
>  AFAIK, I'm not sure, if there is a Fedora mailing-list which gives you
>  _explicitly_ security updates. But I can point you to a few things.
>
>  1) you may want to install yum-security-plugin, ( "yum install
>  yum-security"),  you can just do a "yum update --security" for getting
> all
>  security updates/patches. check it's man page .
>   more details here  -
>  http://magazine.redhat.com/2008/01/16/tips-and-tricks-yum-security/
>  (And maybe you can periodically run a simple cron job to send an email to
>  you)
>
>  2) subscribe to fedora-package-announce mailing list - which has "security
>  updates" announcements along with other packages.
>
>  3) check out websites like www.lwn.net where security updates of Fedora
>  (and other major distributions) will be announced.
>
>  hope that helps,
>  kashyap
>
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Naveen
> >
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