Hello,
To make it more clear for my last question, How can I find out if my SUSE box has got specific vulnerability fixed so that I should not bother to patch it.
--> you have to look at the changelog of the specific package. "rpm -q --changelog k_deflt | more" lists all changes and patches applied to the default kernel. The same can be used for any application e.g. "rpm -q --changelog openssh"
BTW, could this utility check patches for both application and kernel? Could it install/uninstall application.
--> Fou4s will update all SuSE packages that you have installed on your system. It will not update packages which are not supported by SuSE (unless you write your own patch description files for these packages). Fou4s is used to update packages that are already installed, it is not meant for installing/uninstalling packages. Use "YaST" instead or the "rpm -U/-I" command from the commandline. Cheers, Armin -- Am Hasenberg 26 office: Institut für Atmosphärenphysik D-18209 Bad Doberan Schloss-Straße 6 Tel. ++49-(0)38203/42137 D-18225 Kühlungsborn / GERMANY Email: schoech@iap-kborn.de Tel. +49-(0)38293-68-102 WWW: http://armins.cjb.net/ Fax. +49-(0)38293-68-50