RHELS ES3 Update 8 updates
Hi all,
Need advice here. I'm currently setup a domain in a rental hosting provider. My red hat linux : cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 8) I just run Nessus the vulnerabilities scanner and it said that my red hat was outdated and need to upgrade.Below was the actual result : The remote host is missing a RedHat update package. Maintenance level 8 is installed, last is 9. You should install this package for your system to be up-to-date. Solution : http://www.redhat.com/security/notes/ Risk Factor : High Nessus ID : 14657 I've read the solution provided and they said i need to download the image file from redhat website and make it bootable cd to install them. Or I wrong ? Question is can i do alternatively instead of using the solution given because i just have a remote connection to the server and can afford to restart the server because the traffic was starts coming in. Can i just used 'up2date' command to upgrade it all? If do what does the packages that i need to update? Please help Thanks in advance. |
Yes you can just run up2date to bring the system current, but the system will need to be rebooted at some time for the changes to take effect. To get a list of what packages need updating type something like (review the manpage for up2date for the details): up2date --nox -u --dry-run
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thanks very much lenard.
I've just update the listed package and now the Nessus don't much complained about the red hat updates anymore..and i I don't even reboot my server to do that..can that be accepted or i must get the server restart? Thank you again |
The server needs to be rebooted so the new kernel will be used.
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ok..thanks very much Lenard!!
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