all,
Management doens't care for "I patched it" every 2 weeks. They are looking for reports with release dates, reboot times, severity etc from CentOS like the Windows guys have from wSUS.
So CentOS doesn't seem to have yum security options Redhat does. Is there a trick to this I am missing?
Alternatively I figure I can just CURL information about each RPM from the web and just look up data in Excel (and later Splunk) to get severity and release dates into the reports management wants. Unless there is an existing tool in CentOS for this?
Any help?
Patching CentOS
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Re: Patching CentOS
Get management to pay for Red Hat subscriptions?
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Re: Patching CentOS
I am okay with that. They are not. Assumed there has to be some fancy tools for this somewhere...
Re: Patching CentOS
CentOS does not supply any security related metadata in its yum repositories to allow this to happen.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke
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Re: Patching CentOS
Thanks for replying TrevorH, any third party tools? Utilities?
Re: Patching CentOS
It's called RHEL.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke