On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 17:03, Aleksander Demko wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 15:58, seth vidal wrote: > > Well it's not so much I want to be 'completely secure' - there is no > > such thing - I just want to be relatively sanely secure. > > > > what that entails I'm not certain of - so until I find an answer I'm > > comfy with I'd rather not give people a by-default false sense of > > security and raise the difficulty of getting started. > > Sounds fair. > > Am I missing something, or is the "yum update" cron thing on by default, > on install? Seems that the yum "service" is set to run on run levels > 3-5, and thus make that file that the cron job checks for. If so, this > might surprise users (and be useless for modem users, if such souls > still exist). Of course, I could easily be missing something :) it's not the default anymore. it hasn't been the default for quite some time. what version are you using? -sv
