Topic: Patching Quickly - Blades, Patches, etc.

[mj62]

Hello,

A very basic security question:


With blades now gone, How do I keep my server patched properly and promptly?


I don't want to end up in a situation where I don't find out about an urgent patch for 3 weeks and get hacked or get a virus.



I'm currently running SME 6000 'upsupported developer release'.


Thank you very much!
Matt

[raem]

Here is what I'm aware of:

For "official" contribs.org updates

Go to www.contribs.org

Select Downloads

Scroll down the page until you see
Index of /pub/Linux/distributions/smeserver

click on updates

click on version number ie 6.0.1

Read the updates.txt file

Instal the update rpms that are in the rpms folder

You may also want to read the Update release announcement(s) in the News section, and in the News Archives sections eg
http://no.longer.valid/news/archive.php?year=2004&month=3


For "unofficial" bleeding edge updates from Mitel see
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/devel/
and the various subfolders.

Make sure you read the README file for explanation/disclaimer.

Regs
Ray

[mj62]

Thank you for that!

Hopefully someone will write a blades equivalent at some point, but that certainly helps in the mean time...

[boringgit]

Have you tried YUM

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=21205.msg88701#msg88701

I find it pretty useful.