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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Linux security patches Post 302239733 by flekzout on Wednesday 24th of September 2008 10:14:44 AM
Old 09-24-2008
Linux security patches

Hi all, Smilie

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 which I have no clue why should I do that since that machine is not connected to internet than why should I patch it.. , but anyway I have found the security patches from redhat as per below:


Code:
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel4-extras-errata-security.html

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 really need to install all of those patches or which security patches that is not important or can bring some error to my server? please shed some light on, I am really newbie.

Thank You.
 

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STG-PUSH(1)							   StGit Manual 						       STG-PUSH(1)

NAME
stg-push - Push one or more patches onto the stack SYNOPSIS
stg push [options] [<patch1>] [<patch2>] [<patch3>..<patch4>] DESCRIPTION
Push one or more patches (defaulting to the first unapplied one) onto the stack. The push operation allows patch reordering by commuting them with the three-way merge algorithm. If there are conflicts while pushing a patch, those conflicts are written to the work tree, and the command halts. Conflicts raised during the push operation have to be fixed and the git add --update command run (alternatively, you may undo the conflicting push with stg undo). The command also notifies when the patch becomes empty (fully merged upstream) or is modified (three-way merged) by the push operation. OPTIONS
-a, --all Push all the unapplied patches. -n NUMBER, --number NUMBER Push the specified number of patches. --reverse Push the patches in reverse order. --set-tree Push the patches, but don't perform a merge. Instead, the resulting tree will be identical to the tree that the patch previously created. This can be useful when splitting a patch by first popping the patch and creating a new patch with some of the changes. Pushing the original patch with --set-tree will avoid conflicts and only the remaining changes will be in the patch. -k, --keep Keep the local changes. -m, --merged Check for patches merged upstream. STGIT
Part of the StGit suite - see linkman:stg[1] StGit 03/13/2012 STG-PUSH(1)
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