[Hudlug] Debian and display settings
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Wed Jan 4 21:17:30 GMT 2006
On Wednesday 04 Jan 2006 14:01, Tim Bray wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Hi, Tim. I shan't bother changing it. This is a
> > temporary/experimental install, so that I can assess it for use on
> > a home lan server. There's simply no need for the latest and
> > greatest, as long as I can work out how to get security patches. I
> > hope to have time to look at that today.
>
> security patches in debian are really easy.
>
> If during installation you said yes to include security sources, then
> you just need to do:
>
> apt-get update; apt-get upgrade
>
> And your system will get updated.
>
> Note that with Debian security patches, they backport the changes.
> So when you get a security upgrade they have only changed the little
> bit needed to fix the bug.
>
> If you didn't say yes to security sources, then you need to edit
> /etc/apt/sources.list and makesure you have a line like
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main
>
I do have that. It appears that a kernel update was all that was
required. That surprised me - unless I had already pulled some updates
without realising it - as I'm used to having to do a very large update
as soon as Mandriva is installed.
>
> You can also install the cron-apt package to automatically install
> updates.
>
> apt-get install cron-apt
>
> will install it for you. By default it will do the update bit, and
> do the downloading.
> You still have to do apt-get upgrade to install. A little config
> with the cron-apt settings will make it upgrade as well - although
> this is maybe a little scary.
>
For the moment, at least, I won't do that. I like to check for updates
reguarly, but I also like to see what's being proposed.
>
> Also see:
>
> http://www.debian.org/security/
>
> Also consider subscribing to debian-security-announce mailing list,
> to remind you when you need to upgrade.
>
That's a good idea - I do have the same for Mandriva. I presume that I
sign on from the debian website?
Thanks for the suggestions, Tim.
On the whole I'm liking what I see, although I have hit one big problem
with samba - but another thread for that ;-)
Anne
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