I'm quite new with installation of security patches in Linux Redhat Enterprise, here's my question.
I have 2 machine of this RHEL(never patch before) since it never connects directly to the internet(block by firewall) and I want to update the patches now because my boss asked me to update it due to security reason, and I have found the security patches from redhat as per below:
but the things that I do not understand is, do I need to update all of this patches? because I saw there's patch like realmediaplayer, acrobatreader, which I never open at all in my servers. do you think I should update all of those? sorry I am really newbie.
I know that 'rpm -qa' will list the packages that have installed while ‘up2date -l' will list the updates available to install. but do I need to install all of those patches or which security patches that is not important or can bring some error to my server?
Hi All,
I would like to ask some questions, I have an Solaris 10 and RHEL which is install in separate machine..
The question is:
1. how can I check the latest patches or latest update in my machine? (I need a step or command)
2. where can I get the latest security patch or necessary patch... (5 Replies)
Hi all, :)
I'm quite new with installation of security patches in Linux Redhat Enterprise, here's my question.
I have 2 machine of this RHEL(never patch before) since it never connects directly to the internet(block by firewall) and I want to update the patches now because my boss asked me to... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want to roll back the packages that are installed during the patch installation of RHEL 5 server. There are in all 110 packages including the kernel package...
kernel-2.6.18-274.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-274.el5.x86_64.rpm
How should I proceed ?
I don't want to run rpm... (4 Replies)
Hi
Is there a direct way to apply a particular security advisory on the system.
Presently we have certain security advisories to be applied which require installation of multiple rpms and their dependencies.
These rpms as listed in the security advisory also mention that they have been... (0 Replies)
I need to find out list of installed patches from given list of patches.
I have tried using instfix -f <File containing list of patches> -i -c
But I was not able to understand the output of this command. It was like below.
bos.perf.tools: :0.0.0.0:?:
bos.rte.libc: :0.0.0.0:?: ... (4 Replies)
Hi, I'm pretty new to Linux and I want to download security patches and install them on RHEL 5.4.
I've searched the red hat web site but cant seem to find where the download link is. (5 Replies)
Hi,
Need a command to find out Missing operating system patches for AIX 7.1 or a command to list down all installed patches. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Mona Khandelwal
1 Replies
LEARN ABOUT LINUX
diff2patches
diff2patches(1)diff2patches(1)NAME
diff2patches - Extract non-debian/ patches from .diff.gz files
SYNTAX
diff2patches filename
diff2patches --help|--version
DESCRIPTION
Extracts patches from .diff.gz which apply to files outside the "debian/" directory scope. A patch is created for each modified file.
Each patch is named according to the path of the modified file, with "/" replaced by "___", and an extension of ".patch".
OPTIONS
filename
Extract patches from filename which apply outside the "debian/" directory.
--help
Output help information and exit.
--version
Output version information and exit.
FILES
debian/control
Existence of this file is tested before any patch is extracted.
debian/
debian/patches/
Patches are extracted to one of these directories. "debian/patches/" is preferred, if it exists. If DEB_PATCHES is present in the
environment, it will override this behavior (see "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES" section below).
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
DEB_PATCHES
When defined and points to an existing directory, patches are extracted in that directory and not under "debian/" nor
"debian/patches/".
SEE ALSO combinediff(1)AUTHOR
Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com>
Raphael Geissert <;atomo64@gmail.com> diff2patches(1)
09-23-2008
