Re: what's your Debian uptime?
Am Mittwoch, 17. April 2013 schrieb Tixy:
> On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 22:59 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > Linux greer 3.2.6 #1 SMP Mon Feb 20 17:05:10 CST 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
> >
> > 22:35:31 up 412 days, 10:05, 1 user, load average: 1.18, 0.97, 0.44
>
> So you are over a year behind in installing security updates for the
> kernel. (I know, if your machine doesn't have untrusted users and is
> well removed or disconnected from the internet, then that doesn't really
> matter).
This must not be so. Look, In my case I used a self compiled kernel, with very
few modules. And as the only security holes have been in kernel modules, I did
not compile, I needed not to install a new kernel. Those modules were just not
existent. KISS-style. It makes things more secure!
Hans
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