As well as all the good suggestions others have made, consider using a cron job to run a glsa check daily after updating portage. # glsa-check -t all That will email you indications of security issues specifically affecting your systems as configured.
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Machell, Jonathan < jonathan.mach...@cumbria.ac.uk> wrote: > Hello there, > > We're currently trialling Gentoo to possibly host some of our web-servers. > I've used Gentoo for over eight years so I'm leading these trials. > > I've subscribed to this mailing list but also gentoo-server and > gentoo-security. I'm trying to keep up to speed with all the latest security > news affecting Gentoo, GNU/Linux, Apache and MySQL. Should subscription to > these mailing lists be sufficient for this or is there any other place where > I should be looking to keep on top of security issues? I'm aware that this > and the other two mailing lists are low traffic but I haven't heard a peep > since subscribing on Tuesday. Is that normal? I was hoping to go through the > archives of previous messages at some point. Are these kept somewhere? > > Many thanks, > > Jonathan Machell > University of Cumbria is a Company Limited by Guarantee, Registered in > England & Wales No. 06033238. Registered Office: University of Cumbria, > Fusehill Street, Carlisle, CA1 2HH. Telephone 01228 616234. > > Confidentiality: This email and its attachments are intended for the above > named only and may be confidential. If they have come to you in error you > must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone; > please reply to this email and highlight the error. > > Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the > knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We > advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when emailing > us. > > Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and > attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good > computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. >
