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From: "A. Khattri" <ajai@bway.net>
To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] prioritising security updates
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:39:42 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.58.0509081038420.10227@ida.bway.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <431E0FDA.70805@lunatic.net.nz>

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Jeremy Brake wrote:

> Is there anything in Portage which will allow me to view security
> updates, seperate from general version updates?
> At the moment i have a 5am cron job which runs "emerge --sync && emerge
> -upvD world" , and i just glance at it as soon as I i sit down at my pc
> for the day.
> The problem here is that I cant tell if updates (eg, at the moment it
> wants to update openssh and apache2) are security patches, or just
> general version upgrades.

Do a Google for "Gentoo glcu" - its a script that does all the updates and
security checks for you. I have it run from cron on all my servers.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-08 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-06  0:09 [gentoo-server] Virtual ssh users Yogesh Sharma
2005-09-06  0:15 ` Jeremy Brake
2005-09-06  0:26 ` Ben Munat
2005-09-06  6:08   ` ysharma
2005-09-06 16:41     ` Ben Munat
2005-09-06 21:53       ` [gentoo-server] prioritising security updates Jeremy Brake
2005-09-06 22:14         ` Paul Kölle
2005-09-07  6:12         ` Michael Irey
2005-09-07  6:48           ` W.Kenworthy
2005-09-07 15:28             ` Matthias Bethke
2005-09-07 22:56               ` William Kenworthy
2005-09-08 12:19                 ` Matthias Bethke
2005-09-07 12:21         ` xyon
2005-09-08 14:39         ` A. Khattri [this message]
2005-09-08 14:43       ` [gentoo-server] Virtual ssh users A. Khattri
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-06 22:05 [gentoo-server] prioritising security updates Christopher Schwerdt
2005-09-06 22:16 ` Jeremy Brake
2005-09-07  2:04 ` Ben Munat
2005-09-07  5:51   ` Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
2005-09-07 16:21     ` Ben Munat
2005-09-13 22:26       ` Jonas 'data' Fietz
2005-09-21 16:45         ` Yogesh Sharma
2005-09-22  3:28           ` Ben Munat
2005-09-22  4:24             ` Yogesh Sharma
2005-09-22 16:03               ` Ben Munat

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