Re: Questions on Securing Debian Howto

2006-02-03 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello nddias (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am setting up a Debian (sarge) webserver to run over my home DSL > connection. I've been using my best common sense and a whole lot of > googling to follow along with the "Securing Debian Howto, but I still > have some questions/need clarifications on

Re: Questions on Securing Debian Howto

2006-02-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On 2 Feb 2006 15:26:15 -0800 "nddias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4.2.2 Security update of the Kernel > > I recompiled and installed a 2.6.8 kernel w/ local APIC support > disabled because I was getting "spurious interrupt" messages. I also > enabled Athlon support. There are kernel packages f

Re: Questions on Securing Debian Howto

2006-02-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 03:26:15PM -0800, nddias wrote: > These sections refer to modifying apt.conf, but this file doesn't > exist...instead there is an /etc/apt/apt.conf.d directory and in it a > 70debconf file. I can't find any docs on how this directory structure > works or the proper way to mo

Questions on Securing Debian Howto

2006-02-02 Thread nddias
Hi, I am setting up a Debian (sarge) webserver to run over my home DSL connection. I've been using my best common sense and a whole lot of googling to follow along with the "Securing Debian Howto, but I still have some questions/need clarifications on some points. The numbers in parentheses refer