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Regarding application of security patches RHEL 5.5

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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These rpms as listed in the security advisory also mention that they have been outdated by other releases.

So the question is that is downloading and applying all such rpms the only way to confirm to the security advisory or there is some other direct way to get the security advisory updated at the system.

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secdef(3)						     Library Functions Manual							 secdef(3)

NAME

       secdef: open_secdef(), close_secdef(), get_secdef_str(), get_secdef_int() - security defaults configuration file routines

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       opens the security configuration file This function must be called prior to calling or

       closes the security configuration file.

       and return the value of the specified parameter defined in the security configuration file.  See the security(4) manpage.

       Programs using these routines must be compiled with

APPLICATION USAGE

       In  a multithreaded application, these interfaces are thread-safe, but not async-cancel-safe.  A cancellation point may occur when a thread
       is executing any of these interfaces.

RETURN VALUE

       returns a value of if the open completed successfully.  Otherwise, it returns and leaves unchanged from the call.  and return  the  follow-
       ing:

	      The value of the specified parameter was successfully returned.
	      The entry was not found, or the security configuration file was not opened.
	      The format of the entry was incorrect.

EXAMPLES

       This example obtains the "path" from the parameter.

FILES

       Security defaults configuration file.

SEE ALSO

       security(4).

																	 secdef(3)

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