apt-get defaults for keeping my system stable and secure?

[Jim Kronebusch]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:32:43 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, john  wrote:
> 
> > I am running a web-server with Debian etch on it. I run apt-get update
> > about once a week to figure out what's new. I also subscribe to the
> > debian security list and I only want to patch security problems. Is it
> > sufficient/best practice to have ONLY the following lines in
> > sources.list:
> > 
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
> > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
> 
> That should pretty much do it as long as you're happy to wait until the
> debian security team fixes it.  They're usually fairly prompt.
> 
> There are optional non-security bugfix updates in the regular updates
> repository, but you don't need them I guess if you don't want them.

I talked to Robert Arkeletian the other day (the guy who writes fl_teachertool) and he
said he had some scripts that can shutdown a client and boot them via wake on lan.  I
told him if he had a chance he should get those scripts to you so that you may try and
incorporate them into the stress test system.  If you don't hear from him you might want
to contact him personally.  I know last time we talked you were still looking for a way
to do this.  I think Robert is pretty busy right now working on TeacherTool (which he
hopes to have ported to Edubuntu within the next couple of weeks by the way) but I would
think he would be able to shoot you the rough scripts to look at.

Jim

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