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As well as all the good suggestions others have made, consider using a cron |
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job to run a glsa check daily after updating portage. |
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# glsa-check -t all |
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That will email you indications of security issues specifically affecting |
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your systems as configured. |
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Machell, Jonathan < |
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Jonathan.Machell@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Hello there, |
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> We're currently trialling Gentoo to possibly host some of our web-servers. |
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> I've used Gentoo for over eight years so I'm leading these trials. |
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> I've subscribed to this mailing list but also gentoo-server and |
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> gentoo-security. I'm trying to keep up to speed with all the latest security |
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> news affecting Gentoo, GNU/Linux, Apache and MySQL. Should subscription to |
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> these mailing lists be sufficient for this or is there any other place where |
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> I should be looking to keep on top of security issues? I'm aware that this |
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> and the other two mailing lists are low traffic but I haven't heard a peep |
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> since subscribing on Tuesday. Is that normal? I was hoping to go through the |
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> archives of previous messages at some point. Are these kept somewhere? |
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> Many thanks, |
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> Jonathan Machell |
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