Re: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing?

2004-10-09 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 04:05:31PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:18:02 -0500 JW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip - new user administering Debian co-lo I was reading the security FAQ and am somewhat alarmed to find (if I

Re: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing?

2004-10-09 Thread Albert Ulmer
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 03:38:18 -0400, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 04:05:31PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:18:02 -0500 JW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip - new user administering Debian co-lo I

Re: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing?

2004-10-09 Thread Joost Witteveen
Jacob S wrote: On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 23:13:15 +0200 Dan Roozemond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While we're at it - suppose someone is the only administrator of a debian(stable) system connected to the internet permanently, with SSH, Postfix and Bind exposed to the 'big bad' world. Say that someone is

Re: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing?

2004-10-08 Thread Don Parris
-- Original Message - Subject: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing? Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:18:02 -0500 From: JW [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Sorry to bother everyone with newbie questions, but I'm struggling to understand the entire Debian

RE: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing?

2004-10-08 Thread Dan Roozemond
Hi, I am wondering what the best way is to go about staying up to date. If I run apt-get -s upgrade I'm told that apt wants to upgrade about 15 packages, most of which seem to be related to X (we won't ever be using X on this server. it wasn't originally installed and Id like to get

Re: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing?

2004-10-08 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:18:02 -0500 JW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip - new user administering Debian co-lo I was reading the security FAQ and am somewhat alarmed to find (if I understand correctly) that Testing is not actively supported by the security team. Youch. If I could put stable on it

Re: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing?

2004-10-08 Thread JW
DR If anyone has advise on how to keep a Testing system secure, DR I'd really like to hear it. DR DR If security is really an issue to you: lots of websites exist on how to make DR a linux system secure, involving very strict SSH settings, firewalls, etc. DR DR For the average user (such

RE: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing?

2004-10-08 Thread Dan Roozemond
The only thing that might cause a problem would be if it updates a large package (say Apache or Perl) and has a small configuration bug that makes you run around and pull your hair out trying to figure out what's changed and how to fix it. This is when reading the Debian-user list

Re: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing?

2004-10-08 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 23:13:15 +0200 Dan Roozemond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing that might cause a problem would be if it updates a large package (say Apache or Perl) and has a small configuration bug that makes you run around and pull your hair out trying to figure out

Re: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing?

2004-10-08 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 08 October 2004 21:18, JW wrote: Hello, Sorry to bother everyone with newbie questions, but I'm struggling to understand the entire Debian environment and need a little advise. I have been using SuSE for a long time but recently my job has required me to start administrating a