Hiall! I'm wondering if anybody's using RH8.0 and could assist me in a general package updating/security audit/admin session. Nothing too crazy, I just need some help grokking alternatives to up2date (yum, etc.) and making sure my server isn't bleeding wildly from it's little pointed head. I live in Sutton.. Pete
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:11:36PM -0400, Pete Wason wrote:
Hiall!
I'm wondering if anybody's using RH8.0 and could assist me in a general package updating/security audit/admin session. Nothing too crazy, I just need some help grokking alternatives to up2date (yum, etc.) and making sure my server isn't bleeding wildly from it's little pointed head. I live in Sutton..
Pete Hi Pete, If you have a specific question about RH8 I can take a swing at it or you can try the redhat-install list.
RH8 has been end of lifed by RedHat. There probably isn't too much in the way of "up-to-date" updates available for it (if any at all). You may want to consider moving to a more recent RedHat product, and if cost is an issue, I recommends the redhat free line - Fedora. FC3 is probably the most stable Fedora release that is currently supported. FC4 has been released but may be a little rougher around the edges. Another distro worthy of consideration is Ubuntu at http://www.ubuntulinux.org/. Also free, but well supported. I urge you to move to a newer distro. The newer kernels are faster, and support better features and hardware. You'll also get better security support and updates. -- speech recognition software was used in the composition of this e-mail Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. ¡Ya no mas!
We use RH8 as our primary DNS servers and they are pretty nice. Personally, though, i prefer the apt-get system to do updates. There are plenty of repositories for RH8 around for you to get updates from. I don't think i can help you out, but thought I'd share my experiance on up2date vs apt... also, if you install nmap, you can scan yourself for open ports...thats a quick way to see what holes are open. nmap -sS localhost will work. additionally, running the chkconfig --list|grep on command will show you all the services that are set to be running at any time...its good to shut those down with a quick server whatever stop, the chkconfig whatever off, the latter preventing that service from starting at boot. good luck...hope this helps a little anyway. mike --- Pete Wason <codevark@netscape.net> wrote:
Hiall!
I'm wondering if anybody's using RH8.0 and could assist me in a general package updating/security audit/admin session. Nothing too crazy, I just need some help grokking alternatives to up2date (yum, etc.) and making sure my server isn't bleeding wildly from it's little pointed head. I live in Sutton..
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