artichoke
Verified User
I see that in http://files.directadmin.com/services/ and subdirectories thereof there are a large number of updated packages provided by the DirectAdmin developers. But I could find no README files within that URL that give us any update instructions. Instead, there are a variety of update instructions posted in various places in these forums by various people, almost always followed by postings from others complaining that the instructions did not work on some platform.
How official are the update packages within http://files.directadmin.com/services/ ? Should I assume that they are unsupported, i.e., "as is" and not to be used on production machines? Or should I asusme that they really are official and supported? If they really are official and supported, then which of the many update instructions to be found posted in these forums by various people should be considered official or authoritative?
While I am asking, there is something else that is not entirely clear. When I access the DirectAdmin admin menu to do an update of DirectAdmin, can I expect that all security issues in any of the packages originally installed during the DirectAdmin install will be taken care of by the update? Or should I go through all the package one by one and examine each for any unfixed security issues and then pull any needed update from http://files.directadmin.com/services/ manually?
I hope the DirectAdmin developers can clarify.
Rahul
How official are the update packages within http://files.directadmin.com/services/ ? Should I assume that they are unsupported, i.e., "as is" and not to be used on production machines? Or should I asusme that they really are official and supported? If they really are official and supported, then which of the many update instructions to be found posted in these forums by various people should be considered official or authoritative?
While I am asking, there is something else that is not entirely clear. When I access the DirectAdmin admin menu to do an update of DirectAdmin, can I expect that all security issues in any of the packages originally installed during the DirectAdmin install will be taken care of by the update? Or should I go through all the package one by one and examine each for any unfixed security issues and then pull any needed update from http://files.directadmin.com/services/ manually?
I hope the DirectAdmin developers can clarify.
Rahul