On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Tor Operator tor@ssessess.es wrote:
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 06:09:34PM -0500, Libertas wrote:
Be sure to stay up-to-date using apt-get, and consider using cron-apt to automatically update: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-uptodate.en.html
Maybe it also worth covering unattended-upgrades package to keep Debian up to date. It requires to run "dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades" after install as it doesn't enable automatic upgrades right away after install and supposedly don't do potentially dangerous operations like kernel upgrades automatically. Using it in production myself, really helps to keep OS up to date.
Agreed, but note that unattended-upgrades does not restart services whose libraries have been upgraded underneath them -- that's rather important for making sure that an OpenSSL patch, for instance, actually gets loaded into the running Tor and SSH daemons. You need 'needrestart' as well (and it, too, has to be configured to do stuff automatically).
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