From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NYD9p-0002vd-Ox for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:38:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E727DE0782; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:36:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f212.google.com (mail-bw0-f212.google.com [209.85.218.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D05CE0782 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:36:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz4 with SMTP id 4so913172bwz.2 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:36:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=zb8tEbC+T1zbF5QCElgpidto+LAF0r/Z5K+ysYgBXi8=; b=Oppdeb3Nk7oSGbDoOi4IdGAYpH70dMgD2HVOZMOcTX+x5KGmeydvC8YqRTdTkA2/3E 8lwv3AE4tBUkRc8mSYq9TJUdlUQpHyJ3gRiAWWPnxOy5Jt2gzyTDi2Ae/jtedXwPoQZB 0S3lepE1tvAatAOyVp1jPfbdi5gBji7pdv42g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=pP/gKI8hrT7l/2GHtsD1HJqLOJUw1zYpcGKHjq5jwOjqf7LRq16z7Ek2gTF2YBYkb9 S3SiwWXlhNQBcgHNhu5pwPUhlxzZM4Oc4q3wt7yRx57FWEba4G+bmddifr7WnhKVs0GM BZn9A9RuflB7LhgAKO5eTyI7sg0YTebH6HdQg= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.6.5 with SMTP id 5mr1360026bkx.167.1264142179771; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:36:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5D030B24B210824291B610C6C08E8F58E146581797@BOW-EVS-V01.uoc.local> References: <5D030B24B210824291B610C6C08E8F58E146581797@BOW-EVS-V01.uoc.local> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:36:19 -0800 Message-ID: <72bf0ae51001212236l22c59bacx66b9f903bbdcec7e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Security updates From: Jonny Kent To: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0015174ff3529224c7047dbb091f X-Archives-Salt: f35c25e5-ecc5-4a94-b023-479974059bb8 X-Archives-Hash: bffe0c9c7784345f2519d14217ecb152 --0015174ff3529224c7047dbb091f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 > University of Cumbria is a Company Limited by Guarantee, Registered in > England & Wales No. 06033238. Registered Office: University of Cumbria, > Fusehill Street, Carlisle, CA1 2HH. Telephone 01228 616234. > > Confidentiality: This email and its attachments are intended for the above > named only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you > must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; > please reply to this email and highlight the error. > > Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the > knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We > advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing > us. > > Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and > attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good > computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. > --0015174ff3529224c7047dbb091f Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable As well as all the good suggestions others have made,=A0 consider using a c= ron job to run a glsa check daily after updating portage.
# glsa-check -= t all
=A0That will email you indications of security issues specifically= affecting your systems as configured.

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

We're currently trialling Gentoo to possibly host some of our web-serve= rs. I've used Gentoo for over eight years so I'm leading these tria= ls.

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 n= ews affecting Gentoo, GNU/Linux, Apache and MySQL. Should subscription to t= hese 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 hear= d a peep since subscribing on Tuesday. Is that normal? I was hoping to go t= hrough the archives of previous messages at some point. Are these kept some= where?

Many thanks,

Jonathan Machell
University of Cumbria is a Company Limited by Guarantee, Registered in Engl= and & Wales No. 06033238. Registered Office: University of Cumbria, Fus= ehill Street, Carlisle, CA1 2HH. Telephone 01228 616234.

Confidentiality: This email and its attachments are intended for the above = named only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you m= ust take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone;= please reply to this email and highlight the error.

Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowl= edge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We adv= ise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing us.=

Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and attachm= ents are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing= practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free.

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