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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: del on May 03, 2005, 05:06:53 PM
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Hi All,
After 4 years my server HDD has finally died! So I need to do a fresh install, if I use SME6 where can I find the latest security updates? I have searched here but there seems to be so many different opinions! Is SME really secure anymore? Or should I just use Smoothwall or IPCop and put the server behind it? Please forgive me for asking these questions, but SME seems to have lost it's way in the security update area. Thans for your help and suggestions.
Regards,
Del :-?
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where can I find the latest security updates?
see my sig.
Is SME really secure anymore? [...]
but SME seems to have lost it's way in the security update area.
where?
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Hi Stefan,
Thanks for the link, when I said that SME had lost it's way in the security update department I was merely pointing out that it is no longer easy to find the updates needed, there was a time that any updates would be posted on the news page so everyone knew where to find them and that they were indeed available and needed. I searched and found nothing directly related to security updates and there are lot's of different update discussions and I wasn't sure what I should be and shouldn't be installing and your update script never showed in any of the searches. Any how I will probably install SME6 and use your update script. So thanks again for your help and efforts.
Regards,
Del
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Any how I will probably install SME6 and use your update script.
Beware. That update script adds and updates more packages than just security fixes. You might face problems when trying to upgrade to 6.5 or to 7.0, as only upgrade from 5.6, 6.0, 6.0.1 will be tested.
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The SME Server development (aka, the new releases) and maintenance (aka, the updates) depends entirely on the Contribs.org community.
Just to keep all of you up to date, Ian Wells, Floyd Hartog, Dave Kainer and Matthew Copple (sorry if I left someone out) are the people trying to give to this community the SME Server 6.x maintenance and bugfix updates and bring to live the SME Server 6.5 final stable release.
Contribs.org needs your help on this project.
What can you do for Contribs.org?
# Read the maintenance process:
http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/Maintenance%20Process
# Join the devinfo mailing list and offer your help to test, debug, etc:
http://lists.contribs.org/mailman/listinfo/devinfo
# Go to the Contribs.org Bug Tracker and study some of the listed bugs with new or feedback status, simulate them, give your feedback, try to find some sort of solution. Also if you have some packager skills try to build some rpm packages to the listed bugs with resolved or closed status:
http://no.longer.valid/mantis/view_all_bug_page.php
Finally, take these thoughts into seriously consideration (taken from Charlie Brady, a SME core developer):
If maintenance of distribution updates is not a "core role" for contribs.org, then what is?
Don't ask what contribs.org can do for me, ask what I can do for contribs.org.
-Nuno