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Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants
- To: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh(at-nospam)math.technion.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants
- From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 14:13:43 +0200 (IST)
- cc: Shachar Shemesh <linuxil(at-nospam)consumer.org.il>, Ely Levy <elylevy(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>, linux ILUG <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2001, mulix wrote about "Re: http://www.linux.org.il/ rants":
> > > Actually, I'm going over BugTraq daily anyways. What system is Iglu
> > > running anyway? RedHat?
> >
> > redhat 6.2.
> >
> > that would mean the initial update to bring it up to date will be rather
> > massive, unless someone's been taking care of it in the meantime?
>
> While it is recommended to update this to Redhat 7.2+patches, it is actually
> possible to keep a 6.2 system secure because Redhat still provides security
> updates for 6.2. I'm still running a Redhat 5.2 (!!) machine, and keeping it
> quite secure (of course it gets very messy, because Redhat 5.2 did not even
> include "obvious" stuff like openssl, and has a 2.0.* kernel!)
6.2 is something in the middle. Its updates include openssl, but not
openssh.
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Tzafrir Cohen
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