As well as all the good suggestions others have made,  consider using a cron
job to run a glsa check daily after updating portage.
# glsa-check -t all
 That will email you indications of security issues specifically affecting
your systems as configured.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Machell, Jonathan <
Jonathan.Machell@cumbria.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hello there,
>
> We're currently trialling Gentoo to possibly host some of our web-servers.
> I've used Gentoo for over eight years so I'm leading these trials.
>
> I've subscribed to this mailing list but also gentoo-server and
> gentoo-security. I'm trying to keep up to speed with all the latest security
> news affecting Gentoo, GNU/Linux, Apache and MySQL. Should subscription to
> these mailing lists be sufficient for this or is there any other place where
> I should be looking to keep on top of security issues? I'm aware that this
> and the other two mailing lists are low traffic but I haven't heard a peep
> since subscribing on Tuesday. Is that normal? I was hoping to go through the
> archives of previous messages at some point. Are these kept somewhere?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Jonathan Machell
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