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https://www.centos.org – Hello,I am on CentOS 5.8 but seeing this same behavior with systems on 5.2-5.8. I have the package yum-security installed which is required for these options...I'm confused on the ... [by chap0230] (Distributions)

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Submitted by sine on 03/22/2012 – Made popular on 03/22/2012

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Yum has the "yum-security" plugin. When installed running 'yum check-update --security' will list packages that fix a security issue and running 'yum list-sec' will re... [by unspawn]

There's nothing in Mac OS X 10.6.7 for most people to get excited about - apart from a list of security updates as long as your arm.

At least i got it installed but with an error (missing dependency) and its not starting.

Updates Go Twitter 3 years 2 weeks ago

For our openSUSE distributions, we release regularly updates to fix security issues and general bugs.  As desktop user, you get notified in GNOME and KDE via the updater apps about new packages once they run (normal setup is once a day).

I'm try to change a the prohibit to aix for the lines starting with ssh and emagent and rest should be the same.

We are a small shop, no real sysadmin. So developers (Java EE) also try to maintain Ubuntu server 12.0.4.

When I login a terminal and I see messages like:

6 packages can be updated. 6 updates are security updates.

Should all security updates always be installed? can some be ignored? Should these be acted upon immediately?

[ubuntu] Update Manager 1 year 18 weeks ago

At the moment my Update Manager is holding a very long list of security updates.

A window opened and gave me a Warning some of the packages are "not authenticate" so.... I am.....:confused:

How come there are so many ( 823.8 MB) updates?

How do I know which security update to allow Update Manager to install?

Any advise is appreciated because I don't understand.

Thanks in advance

[ubuntu] Security updates 29 weeks 1 day ago

Is there a way to get archived security updates of outdated versions?

I recently had to do a full wipe & reinstall of Hardy 8.04 and I no longer have the published security updates for my system.

Here is how the "Connect to Hidden Wireless Network" dialog used to look with Ubuntu 2011.04:

The "Wireless Security" list showed different protocols, including the one I want (WPA & WPA2 Personal)

PROBLEM: With Ubuntu 2012.04 (on another laptop), only "None" is shown in "Wireless security":

QUESTION: Why are the other options no longer available in 2012.04? I have just installed it, it