[CentOS] Re: A couple of security questions

Wed Jun 25 13:16:18 UTC 2008
kalinix <calin.kalinix.cosma at gmail.com>

On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 15:13 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote:
> 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?

Just saw and installed yum-security on CentOS 5.x on i386. I think this
is what you're looking for.


Calin

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