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TheRudy
14th July 2006, 12:48
Yes, the title is scary :D

http://www.debian.org/News/2006/20060713

Anyways, since i'm using kernel 2.6.14-2-686-smp and there it says that this is one of the versions that has this bug in it, i was kinda thinking of upgrading kernel untill i rememberd that this was the only kernel that recognized my SATA disks. Probably upgrading it and rebooting will result in non-bootable error or am i wrong?
If i get new kernel, won't it put it into grub loader and ask me which kernel to load? So even if the newest version of kernel doesn't work, i can simply boot from current kernel.

Not sure here, that's why i'm asking about this but i do remember that when ubuntu kernel was upgraded on my desktop that i had 2 entries at grub boot to choose from. Will this be the same deal?

Basically, just a precaution questions before i go messing on the live server :)

On the other hand, debians server was hacked cause attacker got 1 of the users account info.. so..

falko
15th July 2006, 13:45
I don't think you need to upgrade unless you give your users shell access (which I'd never do...).

TheRudy
16th July 2006, 09:35
Yeah, no users have shell access plus they got hacked cause the hacker got an account info.. I've decided to leave it as it is..