vulnerability of Linux

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Nov 29 01:01:46 UTC 2005


On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:59:24AM +1100, Steffen Kluge wrote:
> That said, I wish the yum metadata would contain information pointing
> out security related updates. One could then go and just apply security
> fixes and their dependencies.

This is actually in the works right now, from some posts I saw on the yum
list.

> > If you run yum daily to keep the system up2date and something breaks, 
> > you will have no idea whether something changed, what changed or when. 
> Not true, /var/log/yum.log.

Plus, y'know: make your nightly yum script e-mail you the results.

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