fedora security update

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

cc'ing fedora-security-list.

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy <
kashyapc at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Naveen Dhulipudi <
> Naveen_Dhulipudi at infosys.com> 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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