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[Damien Miller]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 hartr@interweft.com.au wrote:

> One way of handling this on Linux is to switch to Red Hat and use the
> Red Hat Network service to do this for you. You can do this fairly
> simply if you go online only briefly - the local process looks to see if
> there are any updates for the RPMs you have installed and does not
> download anything unless you tell it to.

Recent versions of Redhat have also had most services switched off by 
default. The installer also allows you to configure a 'firewall' which
should help matters further.

-d

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