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A guide to System V Init

Author: JT Smith Net-security.org has a guide to Sys-V style init scripts. Sys-V init scripts are used in practically every major distribution, except Slackware...

Security update for modutils

Author: JT Smith A few distributions have security updates for the recent modutilities hole: Linux-Mandrake and SuSE Linux both have updated packages. Debian is...

Choosing Open Source: What does it mean?

Author: JT Smith From OS Opinion: "I know perhaps twenty-five or thirty programmers personally; I'd count eight of them as friends. They are all programmers...

BIND updates for various distributions

Author: JT Smith LWN's daily section has a list of packages addressing the recent BIND vulnerability: listed are updates for Slackware, Red Hat, Linux-Mandrake, and...

Opinion: Linux is a failure

Author: JT Smith OSOpinion: "When I first began using Linux (an early Slackware distribution), I remember thinking that it was a good-but-not-great Unix. Six years...

Linux advisory watch – March 15th 2002

Author: JT Smith From LinuxSecurity.com: "This week, advisories were released for zlib, mod_ssl, xtel, pam_pgsql, cyrus-sasl, netscape, mod_frontpage, openssh, rsync, gzip, NetBSD kernel, php, ...