Update, Upgrade, Maintenance? (DA+RH9)

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How should we maintain our DA with RH9 servers? I know about the directadmin ./build script, but what about the OS? For Windows, we usually just have to go to Windows Update and get updates.

How do you update the kernel and other packages or components of the OS? I read about up2date, up2date.sh, and apt-get on these forums, but they seem out of date being from 2003 or so. Which should we use? Seems like our server doesn't have up2date, but has apt-get.

How do you update command line command files like "du"? Is there anything like cygwin's setup, install, and updating thing? Do we have to go to each projects' site and download and install ourselves?

How should we properly maintain our servers?
 
RH9 updates are no longer generally available.

That's not as bad as it sounds; most of the Internet-facing daemons are supplied by DA; if you run the customapache stuff every once in a while you should be relatively good to go; that just leves ssh, BIND, exim, etc. and DA generally has available updated RPMs for these.

Jeff
 
jlasman said:
RH9 updates are no longer generally available.

That's not as bad as it sounds; most of the Internet-facing daemons are supplied by DA; if you run the customapache stuff every once in a while you should be relatively good to go; that just leves ssh, BIND, exim, etc. and DA generally has available updated RPMs for these.
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Thanks. That means I don't have to worry about apt-get right?
 
Is anyone supplying an updated apt-get repository for RHL9? I don't think so.

Jeff
 
jlasman said:
Is anyone supplying an updated apt-get repository for RHL9? I don't think so.
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I see. Sometimes searching and reading those old posts confuse. Thanks again.
 
milan,

What about debian and updates? I'm not sure what you mean.

You're on your own (you and all the other debian users :) ) in figuring out how to get updates for debian supplied packages; I suppose apt-get will take care of that for you after you set up the excludes I've published elsewhere on this forum. The same updates for yum should apply to apt-get, unless of course you use apt to install some of those packages.

The software updated by customapache updates exactly the same way on debian as on any other DA-supportedOS distribution.

And the other packages, such as exim, the same way they're updated for any other DA-supported OS distribution as well.

Jeff
 
jlasman said:
milan,

What about debian and updates? I'm not sure what you mean.

You're on your own (you and all the other debian users :) ) in figuring out how to get updates for debian supplied packages; I suppose apt-get will take care of that for you after you set up the excludes I've published elsewhere on this forum. The same updates for yum should apply to apt-get, unless of course you use apt to install some of those packages.

The software updated by customapache updates exactly the same way on debian as on any other DA-supportedOS distribution.

And the other packages, such as exim, the same way they're updated for any other DA-supported OS distribution as well.

Jeff
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Okey that makes something clear to me. And what about kernel updates for debian. Are there any how to on those?
 
okey, I found this exclude list for up2date on a RH9:

Code: 
pkgSkipList=kernel*;apache*;httpd**;mod_*;mysql*;MySQL*;da_*;*ftp*;exim*;sendmai
l*;php*;

removeSkipList=kernel*;apache*;mod_*;mysql*;MySQL*;da_*;*ftp*;exim*;sendmail*;ph
p*;webalizer*;

Can this be used on the apt-get exclude list, and where do I need to get it?

An other thing, where can I find a 'how to' for updating the debian kernel?

Thanks
 
Someone else will have to answer; I'm not Debian-knowledgeable enough.

Jeff
 
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