[CentOS] Re: A couple of security questions

Stephen Harris lists at spuddy.org
Fri Jun 20 19:13:07 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:13:39AM -0700, Scott Silva wrote:
> on 6-20-2008 12:41 AM Luigi Perroti spake the following:
> >Hello, I'd like to ask a couple of things:
> >
> >1) I would like to move from Debian to CentOS.
> >One thing I will probably miss is the debsecan tool.
> >This utility sends me a mail whenever there is a change regarding the
> >vulnerabilities' status on my system.
> >It lists new ones, resolved ones and current ones.
> >
> >Is there anything similar for CentOS?
> >
> Right now the closest thing you will get is the Centos-announce list.
> But stay tuned...

If you have access to the repositories...

 yum -d 0 check-update

maybe?

-- 

rgds
Stephen



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