I haven't been sold on the RPM system yet -- it's too automatic for my likes. I never really know what was changed. For example, I was going to update my syslogd via the recommendation at http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/updates/63_update.html The description of the update says this: syslogd-1.3.33: Possible DoS (Denial of Service) attack fixed. Update recommended! Seems as if that would update to 1.3.33. So, as root I did this:
rpm -U ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/a1/syslogd.rpm Updating etc/rc.config...
Looks like the update occurred. But, how can I tell?
/sbin/init.d/syslog restart Shutting down syslog servicesdone Starting syslog servicesdone
And then I looked at /var/log/messages and it's still running 1.3, not 1.3.33. Hum, I expected syslogd to be updated. Let's see: ls -l `which syslogd` -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30980 Nov 17 1999 /usr/sbin/syslogd I have no idea if the patch has been applied. I doubt that the only change was to rc.config, but how would I tell? I'm also unclear on how to apply some updates. I would think some updates to networking or, say aaa_base, might require that I drop into single mode. Is this true, and if so, how would I know when that was needed? Thanks, Bill Moseley mailto:moseley@hank.org -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/