Whats that called...

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Thu May 28 14:53:42 UTC 2009


On 05/28/2009 06:57 AM, Michael M. Moore wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 17:18 +0200, Wybo Dekker wrote:
>> Steve Dean wrote:
>> >> Can anyone remind me of the name of that util you can run on linux boxes
>> >> that will have a look at a range of common settings and report what it
>> >> thinks need changing (log on as root, permissions, etc) ?
>> > 
>> > Bastille??
>> 
>> hm... the one on jaunty says:
>> 
>> w:root>bastille
>> ERROR:   'DB5.0' is not a supported operating system.
>>           Valid operating system versions are as follows:
>>           'DB2.2' 'DB3.0' 'DB3.1' 'DB4.0' 'RH6.0' ...
> 
> Well, the Bastille-Linux [1] homepage hasn't been updated for quite some
> time:
> 
> "Bastille UNIX release coming January 14th, 2008."
> 
> Seems they had some plans for a name-change -- perhaps they've hit some
> snags with that and other things.
> 
> In any case, "DB4.0" was Debian Etch and "DB5.0" is Debian Lenny, which
> is the current stable Debian release.  Lenny was released in February.
> So it's anyone's guess whether this tool would work with Ubuntu (or even
> Lenny) now.
> 
> I think an operation that has trouble keeping pace with Debian's
> notoriously l-o-n-g release cycles is probably in trouble.  :-)
> 
> [1] http://bastille-linux.sourceforge.net/
> 

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BastilleLinux

$ apt-cache policy bastille
bastille:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:2.1.1-19
  Version table:
     1:2.1.1-19 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages

http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/bastille
however
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bastille/+bugs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bastille/+bug/373375





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