RE: [suse-security] System Update and Online Update
Hi, excellent answer. Where is patch description file in disk. Is that bundled with fou4s or SUSE. Where can I find a template of it? I came to run fou4s and ended up with following error message: ---------------------------- linux:/home/ben # fou4s -u You are using ftp.gwdg.de and a business product, this will probably not work. Getting patch descriptions from http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/update/SuSE-SLES/8/...: 15:46:36 ERROR 404: Not Found. FINISHED --15:46:36-- Downloaded: 0 bytes in 0 files ---------------------------- What's wrong with it. Ben -----Original Message----- From: Armin Schoech [mailto:armin.schoech@web.de] Sent: 2004年4月16日 15:53 To: suse-security@suse.com Subject: RE: [suse-security] System Update and Online Update 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 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help@suse.com Security-related bug reports go to security@suse.de, not here
On Apr 16, Gao, Ruidong <Ruidong.Gao@landesk.com> wrote:
Where is patch description file in disk. Is that bundled with fou4s or SUSE. Where can I find a template of it?
The patch descriptions are on the FTP Server. You can use any of them as template, e.g. http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/update/8.2/patches/...
I came to run fou4s and ended up with following error message: ---------------------------- linux:/home/ben # fou4s -u You are using ftp.gwdg.de and a business product, this will probably not work. [...] What's wrong with it.
You need to use sdb.suse.de as update server and supply SuSEUser and SuSEPassword in fou4s.conf, because updates for business products are on password protected servers. I'll make the error message more clear in the next version. Markus -- __________________ /"\ Markus Gaugusch \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign markus(at)gaugusch.at X Against HTML Mail / \
Hi,
Where is patch description file in disk. Is that bundled with fou4s or SUSE. Where can I find a template of it?
--> Patch description files are created by SuSE for each published update. As far as I know, there is no template or description out there but simply have a look at them, they are pretty self-explanatory. Fou4s stores them at: /var/cache/fou4s/.cache.hostname/remote-host/i386/update/9.0/patches (for a SuSE 9.0 system)
I came to run fou4s and ended up with following error message: ---------------------------- linux:/home/ben # fou4s -u You are using ftp.gwdg.de and a business product, this will probably not work.
Getting patch descriptions from http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/update/SuSE-SLES/8/...: 15:46:36 ERROR 404: Not Found.
--> The business products are not mirrored by ftp.gwdg.de Edit /etc/fou4s.conf to use ftp.suse.com for retrieving the updates. HTH, 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
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